It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

A rare Roman inscription on a metal vessel held the name of a previously unknown governor of Hispania Citerior with a significant position.

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Nathanael Andrade, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...