Ossuary of Yehohanan son of Hagkol — the crucified man (Giv'at ha-Mivtar tomb, north Jerusalem, 1st century AD (Herodian)). A limestone bone-box found in 1968 containing the heel bone of a man in his twenties with an iron nail still driven through it. The nail bent against a knot in the olive-wood upright and could not be withdrawn, which is why it stayed in the bone; a fragment of the wood was still on its tip. This is the only skeletal evidence of Roman crucifixion ever recovered from an excavation, and it establishes the practice as the Gospels describe it — nails through the body, and a victim afterwards given ordinary burial in a family tomb, as Joseph of Arimathaea sought for Christ (John 19:38). Held by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; rights with the Israel Antiquities Authority.