Several small cemeteries were unearthed in Cambridgeshire, England in 2017. A skeleton of a man somewhere between the ages of 25 and 35 was found and showed signs of crucifixion. Twelve nails were ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe is the first example of a crucifixion in northern Europe. The skeleton of a man with a nail through his heel was discovered in Fenstanton, ...

Almost 2,000 years after his death, the man's skeleton still had a two-inch nail piercing its foot. The skeleton has a nail piercing its foot, perhaps the best-preserved archaeological evidence of ...

Uncover what happens when archaeologists study a skeleton found with an iron nail through its heel bone, suggesting the person was the victim of crucifixion in Roman-occupied Britain. Only one other ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...

Only one victim of crucifixion has ever been identified in Roman Britain: The man’s skeleton—with a two-inch nail driven through its heel bone—was discovered during a dig in Cambridgeshire in 2017.

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

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