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The body of a man buried in northern Italy 2,000 years ago shows signs that he died after being nailed to a wooden cross, the method used for the execution of Jesus described in the Christian Bible.<\/p>\n

Although crucifixion was a common form of capital punishment for criminals and slaves in ancient Roman times, the new finding is only the second time that direct archaeological evidence of it has been found.<\/p>\n

A new study of the skeletal remains of the man, found near Venice in 2007, reveals a lesion and unhealed fracture on one of the heel bones that suggests his feet had been nailed to a cross.<\/p>\n

\u2026In their research paper, [author Emanuela] Gualdi and her colleagues noted that the Romans had learned of\u00a0crucifixion<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0Carthaginians<\/a>\u00a0and used it as a form of capital punishment for almost a thousand years, until Emperor Constantine banned it in the fourth century A.D.<\/p>\n

Roman crucifixions were designed to cause maximum pain for a prolonged period \u2014 victims\u2019 feet and wrists were usually nailed to a wooden cross, which would hold them upright while they suffered a slow and agonizing death, often taking several days, the researchers said.<\/p>\n

As such, it was usually carried out only for the execution of slaves in Roman society, the researchers said; the bodies were often left on the cross to rot or to be eaten by animals, but in some cases, they were removed and buried.<\/p>\n

\u2026The only other time that the remains of a crucifixion victim have been found was in 1968, during an excavation of Roman-era tombs in Jerusalem. In those excavations, Greek archaeologist Vassilios Tzaferis found that a 7-inch-long (18 centimeters) nail had been driven through the heel bone of a man found in one of the tombs.<\/p>\n

The nail was found in place within the bone, attached to a small piece of olive wood \u2014 part of the wooden cross where the man had been hung to die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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