June
07
/ 2018
The remains of a 2000-year old man discovered in 2007 near Gavello, southwest of Venice in northern Italy are being claimed to be the second ‘crucified skeletal remains’ ever unearthed. Researchers have found evidence that the man had been nailed to a wooden cross, similarly to how Jesus was described as having died in the Christian Biblical description of the crucifixion. The new findings have published in the April 2018 edition of the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences under the title “ A multidisciplinary study of calcaneal trauma in Roman Italy: a possible case of crucifixion?.” Researchers initially found the burial “unusual” in that “The body had been buried directly in the ground, instead of being placed in a tomb
