Did Jesus come from Nazareth?

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Our local cable company must have decided that the local fundamentalists
(they are abundant) would be offended by the A&E special "The Unknown Jesus"
and censored it off the line up. We got "Great Builders of Egypt" or
something (which wasn't bad). At any rate, the Unknown Jesus was also
unknown on local TV.

I was wondering if there is any truth to the comment below about Nazareth in
the leader to the program on the A&E site: 

"The A&E SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE UNKNOWN JESUS points out there is one
thing we know for certain -his name was not Jesus Christ. Never during his
lifetime was he known as Christ. "Christ"is from the ancient Greek,
Christos. It means "the anointed one, the savior." The name Jesus was
common. In the sacred writings he is referred to as "Jesus of Nazareth." And
now even that seems to be an error. For Jesus did not grow up in a place
called Nazareth. He never even lived in Nazareth. Archeologists have proven
that the town of Nazareth did not exist until three centuries after Jesus
died."

Maybe someone who lived in a place that was privileged to see this program
or knows something about this could comment. Have archeologists really
proved that?

Regards, Ray

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