'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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A forensic artist has recreated the face of the only man crucified in Roman Britain, some 2,000 years ago. (Albion Archaeology/BBC ...

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 ...

On Friday, Christians around the world commemorate with prayers and fasting the death of Jesus Christ days before the arrival of Easter and the hope of the Resurrection. The church calls on believers ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

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 ...