Archaeologists believe they've found cross of Jesus of Nazareth

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15. Two points:

1. How could they possibly know if it were Jesus' cross or not? It's not as if someone could--or would--carry off a piece of it as a souvenir, and these things were used and re-used over and over again. "Jesus's cross" would also be the cross of any number of other anti-Roman resisters who were executed by the occupation governor.

2. There are two mentions of Jesus in Josephus that, unlike the Testemonium passage, are generally accepted by actual scholars. Now that Oded Golan has been found not guilty of forging the "James son of Josephy brother of Jesus" on the James ossuary and its antiquity has been established, it is very likely that we do in fact have artifactual as well as textual evidence of his existence.