The skeleton with a nail lodged through his heel was uncovered at a dig in Cambridgeshire, England. Crucifixion was relatively common in ancient Roman civilizations, but physical evidence of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

A nail was found hammered into one of the heel bones of this crucified skeleton. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man in Roman ...

'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 ...

The FINANCIAL — The finding in the village of Fenstanton is the only known example of a Roman crucifixion in the British Isles, and perhaps the best preserved in the world. Archaeologists ...

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Only one victim of crucifixion has ever been identified in Roman Britain: The man’s skeleton—with a two-inch nail driven through its heel bone—was discovered during a dig in Cambridgeshire in 2017.

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