Mary's Tomb.

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Although Wikipedia often isn’t the most reliable source of information, there is an article on Mary’s Tomb here. Of course, if it is indeed authentic, it does not affect the Church’s teaching on the Assumption of Mary. If she did die before she was assumed into Heaven (the Church doesn’t say whether she did die or not), then it is likely that her body would have been placed in a tomb. So there could be place where she was entombed after death and before the assumption - as you can see in the article, there is a belief held by some that it was some days after her death that she was assumed into Heaven. The article does mention that the tomb to which it refers is located near Jerusalem, whereas there is a tradition that Mary accompanied St John to Ephesus in modern-day Turkey - this seems to be the stronger tradition. If this is true, I would say it’s quite unlikely that she was brought to Jerusalem for burial - I think that because of the climate transporting corpses long distances was just not possible at the time. There was also speculation a number of years ago that the tombs of Mary and Jesus were found - in fact, I think the bones of Jesus were said to have been found (although the claims were found to be false and based on elaborate hoaxes). However one should bear in mind that at the time of Christ no less than one in four women were called Mary - so there are probably hundreds of thousands of ancient tombs bearing that name!
 
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