Christian tradition says Jesus' body was laid on a slab cut from a limestone cave after his crucifixion by the Romans more than two thousand years ago. The burial slab was enclosed in a ...

Caiaphas purportedly handed Jesus over to the Romans for his ... is consistent with crucifixion. The Caiaphas tomb was found in 1990 when workers widening a residential road in Jerusalem stumbled ...

And, that's exactly what they did. EXECUTION BY CRUCIFIXION The Romans had a genius for brutality. They were good at building bridges and they were good at killing people, and they were better at ...

The crucifixion of Jesus, who did not possess a gladiator's physique and stamina, did not commence but culminated when he was nailed to the cross. After the brutal, all night scourging by Roman ...