Charles R. Pellegrino is an American writer, and the controversial author of several books relating to science and archaeology, including Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, Ghosts of the Titanic, Unearthing Atlantis and Ghosts of Vesuvius. One of his recent books is The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History , a companion book to the Discovery Channel documentary on the same subject created in part by film director James Cameron. Pellegrino, the son of John and Jane Pellegrino, was born in 1953 in New York, New York. He obtained his... bachelor's and master's degrees at Long Island University in the mid-1970s. Pellegrino's website states that he has taught at Hofstra University and Adelphi University's Center for Creative Arts. It also says he has served as a member of the Space Studies Institute and as a space-flight consultant at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. He travelled with Robert Ballard to the Galapagos Rift after Ballard's discovery of the R.M.S. Titanic .
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