Silly you.. they just found Noah's Ark and believe it or not the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant were right there with it, wrapped up in Joseph's technicolor dream coat.
IF you can find an "honest" historian/researcher around the biblical insanity they will sustain exactly what you have pointed out ProWag. On the other hand, you have those "researchers" that were bought and paid for by the State of Israel, The Vatican, Salt Lake (and at least a dozen other Christian seats of power) along with the leadership of Islam... seems that this is one area the Big 3 tend to get along on, covering one another's tukkis so that the "big lie" doesn't get exposed. Oddly, the truth is coming up from the dirt just as the good book warned, and what is being painted isn't the divine sage most envision when it comes to the "messiah". In fact, the Jesus we know of today never existed as a single person but in the aspects of several different people from around the same period of time (give or take a century here and there). Certain "recently" (past decade) discovered materials even hint that JC and John the Baptist were one in the same, not cousins as the bible suggests. But again, this is the sort of material the Big 3 will strive to keep quiet until they can find a way of working around it... kind of how they did with Nag Hammadi, and referring to it as non-Gospels or other Gnostic texts that don't fit the tall tales they want everything to fit into... like Mary M being married to JC and even having greater authority than the men who followed JC.
There is "historical" inference around the idea that a sage/shaman/rabbi fitting the Jesus idea lived and was executed. But the documented record gives him and the execution less than a paragraph's note... when compared to the reams of material still retained by the Vatican let alone the mountain of manuscripts destroyed in the name of Rome & God (and at one time, Allah) it seems rather odd. That is, unless you look at mythology and ritualism throughout that region and much of the known world for that matter; the myriad of Sun Gods (as well as the bastard children of Gods) that became the hero or hope for their people... Jesus seems to be nothing more than a Jewish attempt to echo that same theme, melding it into their prophetic verse which was later "edited" by the hand of those seeking to use this cult to their political favor... but I'm confident many here know that tale.
Long story short, archeological discoveries that can be intimated as being somehow associated with the various biblical tales (especially old testament) get to gain public light. Anything that might challenge the essence of the Abrahamic traditions is quickly suppressed... or at least, that's how it was long ago (lots of murder and mayhem... made the Cold War look like Amateur hour -- Archeologist & translators murdered, come up missing along with the material they were translating, etc.)
Sigh...
Go to Jerusalem and you will find 3 tombs of Jesus; the Catholic display that conveniently has his tomb and birth place under the same roof... the lesser known Protestant Gardens and the more recently discovered site that had ossuaries bearing the names of the "Holy Family"... Then again, there are at least two different sites of the birth, the ascension and numerous other odds & ends (and yet a deranged member of the Roman ruling family found all these sites some 1,700 years ago without question).
I give up