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Yes. Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified, was on a mountain. The mountain looks like the top part of a skull, by which it has its name. (see link)

Aramaic gulgaltā, Hebrew gulgōleth. Both mean 'skull'.

Before Constantine I, and more specifically his mother Helen, (ca. 325 AD) Golgotha was known by Christians as a Mount looking like the skull-pan of a head.

A spot there is called Golgotha,-of old the fathers' earlier tongue thus called its name, "The skull-pan of a head:" Four Books Against Marcion Book II 259

Through the great falling away, the Location of Golgotha also was lost to the Church.

Here are the scriptual requirements of Golgotha:

1. A hill that Looks like the cranium (top of the skull). (In all four Gospels the greek word κρανιον (cranion) is used. (Mt 27,33;Mk 15,22;Lk 23,33;Jn 9;17)

2. From this mount those gathered there saw the curtain of the temple rip at the moment Jesus died. (Mt 27,51;Mk 15,38;Lk 23,45)

3. Golgotha was very near a gate leading to Jerusalem, but outside the city. (Jn 19,20)

There is only one mount that fills all these requrements. And this mount even today appears like the skull-pan of a head, and the head itself is looking directly at the entrance of the temple and the north side of the altar.

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