The Discovery Channel will premiere a documentary Sunday called The Lost Tomb of Jesus -- which executive producer James Cameron of Titanic fame claims has been found.
The documentary will claim a box inscribed with the name "Jesus" has been unearthed, as well others inscribed with Mary, his mother, and Mary Magdalene, whom the documentary asserts to be Jesus' wife.
Simcha Jacobovici, the program's director, said the discovery is bound to shake the faith of some Christians.
"Does it affect the ascension? Well, if you believe that Jesus took his body to Heaven, it does," he said. "But if you believe in a spiritual ascension, it doesn't."
But Gary Habermas, a professor at Liberty University who specializes in resurrection research, said finding burial boxes with those names doesn't establish anything. He told Family News in Focus as many as half of Jewish girls at that time were named Mary, and Jesus was a common name as well.
"My understanding is that there's no DNA connection between the persons in the tomb," he said. "That makes it even more interesting."
Archaeologist Amos Kloner, who first examined the tomb in 1980, called the documentary's claims "nonsense."
He told ABC News that simply because it's labeled a tomb that "belonged to a Jesus, doesn't make it the tomb of Jesus Christ."
