Skeletal evidence of crucifixion ... caused almost certainly by a nail through the heel bone. Unlike the Jerusalem example, though, the man from Gavello was not buried in a proper family tomb.

Albion Archaeology Sometime between 130 and 360 C.E., a 25- to 35-year-old man ... crucifixion at the hands of the Roman Empire. His skeleton—found with a telltale nail hammered through its heel ...

The skeleton of a man was found with a nail through ... She found only the Jerusalem example to be a likely crucifixion because the right heel bone retained a nail which was in exactly the same ...

Only one victim of crucifixion has ever been identified in Roman Britain: The man’s skeleton—with a two-inch nail driven through its heel bone—was discovered during a dig in Cambridgeshire ...

Experts have reconstructed the face of the only man known ... through his heel bone. Experts subsequently concluded that he was the victim of the gruesome practice of crucifixion.

Uncover what happens when archaeologists study a skeleton found with an iron nail through its heel bone, suggesting the person was the victim of crucifixion in Roman-occupied Britain. Only one ...

A nail was found hammered into one of the heel bones of this ... the Roman Empire and that crucifixion was generally not performed on Roman citizens. During the man's crucifixion, his arms would ...

In 1968, excavations in Jerusalem uncovered a heel bone pierced by a 7-inch iron nail, the first direct evidence of a crucifixion victim from the first century A.D. This find, reported by the ...

Uncovering a nail still in the heel bone of a crucifixion victim from Roman Britain ... Are you confident this is a man? -Absolutely confident. He's coming out as male or probably male in every ...