Archaeologists believe they've found cross of Jesus of Nazareth

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195. Wrong

nobody called Jesus lived at that time.

No-one was identified as being from Nazareth

Historians, as a class, favour the idea that the figure of Jesus was based round a single person but significant minority doubt this. They will also admit that all, or nearly all, the biographical details about the figure known as Jesus are false or accretions from other mythologies. They will also agree that most, if not all, of the teachings attributed this shadowy figure were common currency both amongst the Judeans and their neighbours.

All historians agree that if a foundation figure existed he made very little impression at the time.

The earliest parts of the Bible (some of the Pauline letters) do not identify the Jesus figure as any more than an ideal.

The man now known as Paul, who must have been alive during at least part of the ministry, never met, saw or heard this supposedly famous teacher.

Yes a figure upon whom the tales of Jesus have been fixed may have existed - but equally there was a figure that Conan Doyle developed into Sherlock Holmes. In that last case thousands believed in Sherlock Holmes sufficiently strongly to write to him for assistance.