DNA testing was completed between the Jesus and Mariamne artifacts. Will there be further DNA testing to show relationships between the other ossuaries found in the tomb? If so, when will the information be released? If not, why was this not done?
The DNA evidence should be made available to the public in my opinion. I have not read the book, does anybody know if the DNA markers are presented in the book? The ideal situation would have been to have all the dna tested. Like in another posting, they mentioned that someone knows where the bones were buried and they should extract them for a DNA sampling. Unmarked means unmarked burial to the public, not to the officials who buried them. This information belongs to everyone. A study of this scale should not be tied up in a court system such as the Kenniwick man in Washington. The Shroud of Turin was tested and was found to be a male with AB blood type. It was rumored that the church stopped testing, and pulled back the samples. Some strings of DNA were taken from it, but weak and incomplete. Although the Jesus Tombs did not find a strong enough Y to test in the chromosome they were able to extract the MTDNA which lives outside of the nucleus. Lets start from what was tested and go on from there. But make it public. I think that this documentary started the ball rolling, but getting the information out to the public will find more answers.