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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 2,000 years after his death, the man's skeleton still had a two-inch nail piercing its foot. The skeleton has a nail piercing its foot, perhaps the best-preserved archaeological evidence of ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists in the U.K. have uncovered what they say is evidence of ...

For all of our lives, we Catholics have been gazing at Crucifixes. We see them at home, in school, at the hospital, in movies, and in our Churches. Many different presentations of Christ on the cross ...

At the beginning of the summer of 1968 a team of archaeologists under the direction of V. Tzaferis discovered four cave-tombs at Giv'at ha-Mivtar (Ras el-Masaref), which is just north of Jerusalem ...