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 ...

The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his crucifixion and the early persecution of Christians. The work by Tacitus ...

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 crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most illustrated events in human history. For centuries, artists have reimagined it as a form of remembrance and as a means to convey the story of brutality and ...

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 ...

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 ...