And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center. Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ~John 19:17-19
In Jerusalem for a visit in 1883, General Charles Gordon spied a prominent rocky crag which looked to him like it could be the “place of the skull” mentioned in the Bible as where Jesus was crucified.
Although the Church of Holy Sepulchre is the traditional location many scholars believe Jesus was crucified, others think it was possibly a hillside adjacent to the Garden Tomb and for good reason. Golgotha is on the top of a hill right outside the city walls and the small natural caves give it an appearance of a man’s skull. As early as 1842 Otto Thenius, a German Theologian, proposed the idea that the outcropping of rock known today as "Skull Hill" could possibly be significant in the identification of the site of the crucifixion.
Do you see the skull?