Yahoo

A Roman governor ordered Jesus’ crucifixion – so why did many Christians blame Jews for centuries?

'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 ...
Fox News

Easter and Holy Week: What skeptics get wrong about the crucifixion

Every year around Easter, the same old stories begin appearing in the media: The Romans executed Jesus of Nazareth for being a zealot revolutionary, his body allowed to hang on the cross for days and ...
The Times of Israel

Rare evidence of Roman crucifixion unearthed in UK

The site was found near a road linking the then-Roman towns of Cambridge and Godmanchester, according to The Guardian. The skeleton was found with a nail through its heel bone, which experts say is ...
Artnet

‘You Just Don’t Find This’: U.K. Archaeologists Have Unearthed the Full Remains of a Roman Crucifixion Victim

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 ...
The Financial

Evidence of a Roman crucifixion found in Cambridgeshire

The FINANCIAL — The finding in the village of Fenstanton is the only known example of a Roman crucifixion in the British Isles, and perhaps the best preserved in the world. Archaeologists ...
Angely Numbers on MSN

The Roman soldier who pierced Jesus and found his salvation

The story of Longinus is one of the most powerful tales of spiritual transformation in history. A Roman soldier, tasked with ...
The Hill

Historic evidence of crucifixion discovered

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 ...
Bournemouth Daily Echo

First example of Roman crucifixion in the UK unearthed in Cambridgeshire

The skeletal remains of a man with a nail through his heel were discovered during archaeological excavations ahead of building work for a new housing development in Fenstanton. Only one other previous ...
The Daily Telegraph

First physical evidence of Roman crucifixion in Britain unearthed in housing estate

Archaeologists have found the "best physical evidence for a crucifixion in the Roman world" at a Cambridgeshire housing estate. The remains of a man, who had a 5cm iron nail embedded in his right heel ...
CNN

Rare example of Roman crucifixion unearthed in UK

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, ...
BBC

Roman crucifixion: First example in UK found in Cambridgeshire

The first example of a Roman crucifixion in the UK has been unearthed in a small Cambridgeshire village, archaeologists said. The skeleton of a man was found with a nail through his heel in Fenstanton ...