The Baroque artwork stopped an auctioneer in his tracks during a routine property visit. The newly discovered piece will go ...

According to tradition, the church is built on the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. It is a ...

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 ...

Jesus, as described in the New Testament, was most likely crucified on Friday April 3, 33 A.D. The latest investigation, reported in the journal International Geology Review, focused on earthquake ...

The Resurrection of the Christ appears to be Mel Gibson’s most expensive film to date as a director. The Resurrection of the Christ is the forthcoming follow-up to 2004’s The Passion of the Christ.

Crucifixion was an ancient method of punishment — commonly associated with the Romans but also practiced by the Carthaginians, Macedonians and the Persians. The name for the procedure literally means ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Crucifixion: The act of putting to death by nailing or binding the hands and feet to a cross. This brutal method of execution that has become synonymous with torture is the ...