Filmmaker shows relics from disputed Jesus tomb

The director of Titanic presented on Monday what he said was evidence the tomb of Jesus had been uncovered, but scholars greeted the assertion with skepticism.

James Cameron and a team of scholars showed two stone ossuaries, or bone boxes, that he said might have once contained the bones of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The findings are the subject of a documentary he produced called The Lost Tomb of Jesus and a book The Jesus Family Tomb.

The two small caskets were part of 10 found in 1980 during construction in South Jerusalem. Several had inscriptions translated as Jesus, Mary Magdalene and "Judah, son of Jesus," Cameron told a news conference at the New York Public Library.