Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

The first example of a Roman crucifixion in the UK has been unearthed in a Cambridgeshire village. The skeletal remains of a man with a nail through his heel were discovered during archaeological ...

Roman judges could and sometimes did face removal from office, property confiscation, exile or even death for executing clearly innocent people. In other words, it seems unlikely that Pilate would ...

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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 ...