The Princeton professor and author of such titles as ‘The Gnostic Gospels’ and ‘Beyond Belief’ and more spent seven years on ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

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The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of ...

Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 years later in Cambridgeshire, England, in a grave in an ancient ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...