My sources are academic and are well documented. Without all the detail and as an over view of basic information of a historic nature we have the following.

King Solomon placed the relic Arc of the Contract/Covenant into the Great Temple he built along with other critical documents many of the documents are now held in the Vatican Archives in the Vatican City/State. Solomon had a visit from the Queen of Sheba, she returned to the place we now refer to as Ethiopia, pregnant. She bore a son, who traveled to Solomon and there was taught many things including the secrets of the arch. That son returned to his Kingdome in Ethiopia as it's leader with the Arc, he was now referred to as the Emperor of the Universe (the last in the line was Haile Selassie, who had lost the knowledge of the Arc because with the power of the Arc he should have easily defeated the invasion of Fascist Italy during their invasion).

Fast forward to the Christen Crusades. The Knights Templar was primarily a form of archeologists, their main focus was to unearth the writings of King Solomon. They were completely successful and indeed did discover the writings. One proof of this is the complete transformation of building construction in a period of ten years of all major building construction in Europe from wood to stone. The other item on the agenda was to 'contain' the Arc in a small stone structure in Axon in Ethiopia so as to control it's power through the use of magic symbols.

Another item of focus was the retrieval of the Lance of Lungengloria, now housed completely unprotected (as required) in the Hapsburg Armory Museum in Austria. In the cycles of the world history or so it is believed) this is the focus of Good verses Evil among men.

This brings us to a rather important point about "FACTS". Reading the Bible and understanding what you are reading are two entirely different things. A classic scam long ago was to dupe drunks into facts. "Who cut the hair of Sampson and so caused his demise?" The wrong answer was the Jewish woman Delilah, she was a devout Jew and devout Jewish women were NOT allowed to cut even touch a man's hair (the source of his religious strength), Delilah had her woman servant cut Samson's hair at her instruction. Thus you win the bet as a drunk poser that other drunks bet that they know their Bible.

So now the question, who killed Jesus, rather, how did Jesus die. Jesus was killed by the Centurion Lungengloria who drove a standard lance point up and into Jesses side piercing his lung and heart with the lances point, thus facilitating his rapid death. Many will say incorrectly that he died from crucifixion, but this is not correct.

The truth is most often much more interesting than the general story.

The spear in his side was a test of life. If a person being crucified was pierced and pulsed blood, that meant there was still a heartbeat. IF there was a heartbeat, the Romans were instructed to break the legs of the condemned, to speed things up from suffocation. But they didn't break his legs, because they didn't have to..

Pretty sure that arguing if it was the left nail or the right, ... or if it was the lack of water or exhaustion...or any of the tortuous things that led up to the final step of being hung and displayed on a cross, the heinous act of crucifixion was indeed carried out many hundreds of thousands of times, they knew how to do it. . People died from the entire long drawn out act, as that was its ultimate intention of death by torture. ... Arguing semantics on how it was they found themselves hung from a cross. and which of the steps caused the death, absolves no-one involved.

The driver of the getaway of a bank robbery, is just as guilty as those in the bank, holding the gun.