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Golgotha is Aramaic, meaning 'skull' . It is also vey similar to the Hebrew word for skull (גולגולת, transliteration goolgolet). The reason it was named so is because if its appearance as the skull-pan (top) of a skull.

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

Also in the Gospel of John it mentions this being in Hebrew.

And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha. Joh 19,17

To see a picture of Golgotha, which looks like the skull-pan of a head, refer to the link below.

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