Domenico Beccafumi (Italian, 1484-1551), Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata, c. 1513-15, oil and gold leaf on panel, 28.6 x 41.6 cm (11 1/4 x 16 3/8 in.), The Romans, for all that they ...

Crucifixion remains a familiar idea, even though it’s a punishment from the distant past. It’s so familiar that we no longer consider of the physical realities of it. Those realities are some of the ...

In 1936, the French surgeon Pierre Barbet published his medical book A Doctor at Calvary in which he describes taking a recently amputated arm and driving a nail into it in order to understand the ...

Glasgow theology students have been warned about brutal crucifixion images. But such paintings remind us of the grisly truth about death Glasgow University is giving theology students what the Daily ...

The Romans practiced crucifixion - literally, "fixed to a cross" - for nearly a millennium. It was a public, painful, and slow form of execution, and used as a way to deter future crimes and humiliate ...

ISIS has revived the barbaric practice. The time to stop both of them is now. From Easter services to cablecasts of Bill O’Reilly’s bestseller Killing Jesus, Christians are focused on the crucifixion ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Jesus stood accused of sedition, not blasphemy—a civil crime, not a ...

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show ...

Skeletal evidence of crucifixion, a practice the Romans used for centuries as punishment, is exceedingly rare. Five years ago, there was only one bone that experts agreed was likely from a crucified ...