The only crucifixion evidence in the world was discovered in Israel - the crucifixion nail

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In a stone box, the only trace of crucifixion
An ossuary at the Israel Museum contains the sole physical evidence ever found for the Roman practice of execution on the cross
The latest in a series looking at history through a single object in the archaeology collections at Israel’s national museum
In Jerusalem around 2,000 years ago a Jew named Yehohanan, who was in his mid-twenties, committed a crime against Roman authority. The nature of his transgression has been lost to time, but his punishment is known — he was crucified.
Convicts were executed by crucifixion in the Roman Empire as a matter of course, and histories of the time regularly describe the practice, which was designed to make death prolonged, painful and public. After the famous slave uprising led by Spartacus was crushed in 71 BCE, for example, an estimated 6,000 rebels were crucified along a highway leading to the capital as an illustration of Roman power.
It is therefore an odd fact that archaeological evidence of this punishment — crosses, for example, or perforated skeletons — has never been found anywhere in the world, with one exception: the stone box containing Yehohanan’s remains.
After Yehohanan’s body was removed from the cross, it would have been laid out in a burial cave. After the flesh had decomposed a year or so later, leaving only the skeleton, his bones were gathered in a simple stone box, an ossuary, in keeping with the Jewish practice of that time. Today, the box is displayed in a gallery at the Israel Museum alongside other artifacts from the period of Roman rule in Judea.
His name is inscribed in simple letters on one side: Yehohanan, son of Hagakol. (Some scholars, interpreting the letters differently, believe the second name is Hezkil.)
Inside the box, archaeologists found a heel bone with an iron stake driven through it, indicating that the occupant of the ossuary had been nailed to a cross.
The position of the stake was evidence of a crucifixion technique that had not previously been known, according to museum curator David Mevorah. In the image of crucifixion made famous by Christian iconography, Jesus is pictured with both feet nailed to the front of the vertical beam of the cross. But this man’s feet had been affixed to the sides of the beam with nails hammered separately through each heel.
His hands showed no sign of wounds, indicating that they had been tied, rather than nailed, to the horizontal bar.
The surprising lack of similar physical evidence for crucifixion elsewhere, Mevorah said, may be due to beliefs that crucifixion nails had magic properties. People in the ancient world, he said, “might have collected the nails as amulets.”

Yehohanan was not alone in his ossuary: Inside, archaeologists found a second skeleton, this one belonging to a child aged three or four. They also noticed that the side of the ossuary bore a second, fainter inscription near the first. Curiously, this one also read “Yehohanan.”

After the discovery of the ossuary in the 1970s, the famous Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin suggested that the faint inscription referred to the crucified man and the second inscription — Yehohanan, son of Hagakol — to his son.

“Hagakol” is not a name familiar to scholars, and this theory suggested it was not a name at all. Instead, Yadin thought, having looked at similar words in use at the time, it might have meant “crucified.” The inscription thus read: Yehohanan, son of the Crucified One.

The child Yehohanan, in this version of events, died not long after the elder Yehohanan’s execution, and his bones were added to those of his father in the unadorned stone ossuary kept in the family’s burial cave north of the walled city.

My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered liscenced tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.

Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.

[markl]

Not the only evidence; the only PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. There are plenty of written records of the practice.

[lidialia]

Interesting video, Zahi, as well as the description below.The crucifixion was a somewhat macabre use of the ancient Romans.

[mdvs]

No need for proof I already believed it happened

[terryjacob]

I believe a skeleton has been excavated in the last few years, at Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, England, that is believed to be that of a young man, in his early twenties, crucified by the Romans in the 2nd.century AD. From memory I recall there was a nail found, driven into one of his ankles, almost exactly like the one shown here

[kevinwillingham]

Read your Bible there's a lot more

[Anne.xoxo]

Praying the Holy Spirit can help me get back in my house

[ptiprasa]

Thank you Jesus Halleluya Jesus Amen 🙏

[tahirkhan]

I saw the complete documentary on these nail..there were two nails found one in the coffin one out side the coffin.

[Zara-fdec]

Zahi, I've always wondered about this because the bones of the hands and anterior feet are small and thin. Thank you for this brother🌟🙏🌺🌟🌺🌟🌺

[austingroce]

I’d like to know how you come to that conclusion of how they were crucified off of a bone and nail

[darkdogs]

0:19
Bruh, how did that fly get in there? Am only one seeing this?

Nevermind I think that was a crack....

[trustngwenya]

Blessed are those who believe but have not seen the proof of crucification of one and only SON of GOD who became the final secrifice for all mankind

[crazyhandshands]

The point is Jesus or Yahshua was resurrected After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.

[raposathepiratefox]

That does look very similar to the ones they drove through my hands.

[rosegray]

This is fake . Jesus wasn’t bury and no the didn’t get eaten by birds ^

[archangeljesus]

There were only two nails used because Jesus was nailed one a straight ⬆ pole not a cross

[williamgraves]

See Jesus nail foot is evidently 🇵🇸 keeps it safety

[spakssrb]

This is not true way of crucifixion.
4 nails exist, we knew from history, Imperator Konstantin and Jelena have all 4 of them when they found Isus Cross(latin vatican is not right and lied when they speak that there.is only 3 nails)

[gcjypsyladexsplora]

evidence is all written in our bible amen

[Kishla-fo]

No one has all of the facts of crofxtion lost to history