The Ring That Wasn't Pilate's: The Invisible Man Who Signed for an Empire

Send us Fan Mail A cheap, broken copper ring sat in a museum drawer for fifty years. When it was finally cleaned in 2018, a famous name emerged from the corrosion: PILATE. The headlines were instant — the signet of the Roman governor who tried Jesus. There's just one problem. A wealthy, powerful prefect would never have worn a bargain-bin copper ring, cast in a single mold like a plastic toy, with the lettering so badly squished it looks like a homemade "Happy Birthday" banner that ran out of...