Crucifixion remains a familiar idea, even though it’s a punishment from the distant past. It’s so familiar that we no longer consider of the physical realities of it. Those realities are some of the ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

If you stop and think about it, the Christian message is utterly out of sync with what human beings would expect. That the Son of the All-Powerful and Ever-Living God would allow himself to be ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Crucifixion: The act of putting to death by nailing or binding the hands and feet to a cross. This brutal method of execution that has become synonymous with torture is the ...

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 debate about the crucifixion of Jesus was ignited when archaeologists discovered 12 boxes in a burial cave in south Jerusalem in 1990. Two of these boxes were inscribed with the word Caiaphas, the ...

Well, it’s Easter — that springtime holiday filled with bunnies, chocolate eggs and one of the most horrendous ways to die imaginable. At CGM, we like to create lists around holidays because, well, ...

For Christians around the world Easter is the most important festival of the year – the time when they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yet it can't be understood without knowing what went ...

“Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the ...

VERSAILLES, France — A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction Sunday in ...