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 ...

In the Roman Empire, crucifixion was a “cruel, ancient method of slow punishment of both miscreants of crimes and a vast number of slaves who were crucified because of minor misdemeanors,” as ...

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 ...

Pope Francis is formally inaugurating the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to ...

The victim's face was reconstructed by US forensic artist Joe Mullins, who usually works with law enforcement agencies The face of the victim of a Roman crucifixion has been reconstructed for the ...