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DIG UNCOVERS EVIDENCE OF ROMAN CRUCIFIXION

The first known example of a Roman crucifixion in Britain has been discovered at a building site in Cambridgeshire. Archaeologists carrying out excavations ahead of a new housing development in Fenstanton found the skeleton of a man with a nail embedded in his right heel bone, indicating that he was

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