Cameron along with Simcha Jacobvici make this claim in a new documentary that is to be announced today. Here is what one report says:

Let's go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. Archologists were summoned, and the stone caskets carted away for examination. It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs. They were: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua.
Israel's prominent archeologist Professor Amos Kloner didn't associate the crypt with the New Testament Jesus. His father, after all, was a humble carpenter who couldn't afford a luxury crypt for his family. And all were common Jewish names.

There was also this little inconvenience that a few miles away, in the old city of Jerusalem, Christians for centuries had been worshipping the empty tomb of Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Christ's resurrection, after all, is the main foundation of the faith, proof that a boy born to a carpenter's wife in a manger is the Son of God.

But film-makers Cameron and Jacobovici claim to have amassed evidence through DNA tests, archeological evidence and Biblical studies, that the 10 coffins belong to Jesus and his family. (Time/CNN)

Cameron and Jacobvici teamed up on a previous documentary about the Exodus that had a lot of holes in the theory. This latest story has a lot of showmanship and hype associated with it and very little serious scholarship. We'll wait to see what is said.

Good News editor Scott Ashley, a pretty good armchair archaeologist, says this is not really new "news". A couple of years ago Scott heard a scholarly presentation at a conference which talked about the James Ossuary which had been found in Jerusalem and the claim that it could be the grave of James, Christ's brother. So it could be that a tomb containing remains of some of Christ's family has been found. But the extensive DNA analysis and evaluation has not been done by scholars.

This tomb, by the way, did not have any ossuaries of Jesus, a wife or any of His children.

No doubt this documentary by Cameron, along with his claims, will throw a lot of dust in the air and create more confusion. Much like previous efforts, notably, The Davinci Code, The Judas Gospel and others.  There is a continuous effort to undermine the Biblical story from just about every angle one can imagine.

Stay tuned.