'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 ...
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 ...
Archaeological evidence of crucifixion is rare, as victims were rarely properly buried. Most crucifixions used rope rather than nails to bind the condemned to a cross. Albion Archaeology Sometime ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nathanael Andrade has received fellowship funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation/the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of ...
Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Nathanael Andrade, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...