The reported ossuary discovered in 1990 of the high priest, Caiaphas, at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum. Credit: deror_avi, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2011, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery of an ossuary that confirmed the existence of one of the Gospel’s most infamous characters, Caiaphas the high priest, according to the Bible Archaeology Report Caiaphas was the one who asked Pilate to execute Jesus. An ossuary is a small limestone box used to store the bones of the deceased once the flesh had rotted away. It was common for bones of multiple individuals to be stored inside one box. At times they inscribed the name(s) of the individuals on the outside of the ossuary. How rich and important you were also determined how elaborate the box would be. According to the Gospels, Caiaphas was the high priest at the time Jesus was crucified. The plot to secretly arrest Christ during Passover was hatched in the courtyard at Caiaphas’ home (Matthew 26:3–5). In that meeting they expressed fears about arresting Jesus publicly, since the …