The Helmet and the Cross - first UK edition

by W. H. Canaway

This story begins with the discovery of a helmet and a gold box belonging to a Roman centurion, in a cleft of rock near Qumran in the Holy Land, by Professor John Potts. Potts begins to investigate, and attempts to piece together the portrait of the centurion. But is this centurion somehow connected with the birth of Christianity? 

Very readable story, well researched with lots of fascinating historical details that submerse you in the 1st Century AD.