For Shimron, however, the two ancient nails are undoubtedly from the 1st century A.D. and were most likely used in a crucifixion. “I certainly do not want to say that these nails are from the ...
The crown was acquired by King Louis IX of France in Constantinople in 1239 for 135,000 livres - nearly half France's annual ...
The face of the victim of a Roman crucifixion has been reconstructed for the first time, experts have said. The skeleton of a man was discovered with a nail through his heel in Fenstanton ...
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 ...
Excavations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the site of Jesus' crucifixion ... was originally an ancient quarry. Evidence of large-scale stone extraction ...