There, remains dated to the first century were found in an ossuary. The first crucifixion archaeological find with a nail still intact in the skeletal remains was made in a burial cave in Jerusalem in 1968. This remarkable find is only the fourth Roman crucifixion victim ever discovered in the world and only the second with an actual nail still embedded in the bone. That region during that time period was part of the Roman Empire.Īfter exhaustive analyses, experts from the University of Cambridge determined that the discovery was the best physical evidence of a crucifixion ever discovered within a Roman Empire-controlled territory.
In particular, archaeologists had unearthed the skeletal remains of a third-to-fourth-century man buried in a wooden structure in an ancient Roman-era grave in what is today Cambridgeshire, England. In 2021, however, archaeologists announced their findings of the most compelling physical evidence of a Roman crucifixion to date. When nails were used in crucifixions, Roman authorities often recovered the nails after the victims were taken down from the crosses. Those ropes would’ve disintegrated over time. Moreover, crucifixions more commonly used rope - not nails - to bind the accused to a cross. Reasons for this include the fact that those who were crucified usually weren’t given formal burials, which would have preserved the victims’ damaged bones to some degree. The Roman practice of crucifixion was an extreme form of capital punishment, reserved as a shameful death for slaves, Christians, political activists, and disgraced soldiers.ĭespite the number of victims of this cruel execution method, only a handful of physical traces of crucifixions have ever been found. The Bible and other ancient sources attest to the Roman Empire’s crucifixion of tens of thousands of people. Below are three of the most recent findings.
More specifically, archaeologists have made numerous discoveries to date that substantiate biblical accounts. Perhaps, then, these skeptics will be swayed by science. The fact that the Bible is thousands of years old and has been the impetus for countless conversions and healings does nothing to sway people who claim that the Good Book is more fiction than fact. There are those who insist that the Bible is merely a collection of myths or, at best, allegories to teach its readers helpful moral lessons.
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