The Tomb of God
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Publication date | 1996 |
| ISBN | 0-316-87997-5 |
The Tomb of God is a 1996 non-fiction book by Richard Andrews and Paul Schellenberger, which charted as a number one bestseller. It claimed that the body of Jesus Christ was reburied in the 12th century on Pech-le-Cardou (Mount Cardou)[1] in Rennes-le-Château. They arrived at this idea through tracing map references within the parchments described in the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail.[2] However, the authors do not succeed in locating the tomb or evidence relating to it on the mountain itself.
The book became the focus of a BBC 2 documentary "The History of a Mystery" shown in September 1996, in which the authors faced difficult questions over their methods and assumptions.[3] The theory is not taken seriously by academic scholars.[4]
