Some time ago someone said to me they thought Jesus was a myth and that christains just "made up" the story. This isn't new information, just apparently not well known information. There are Roman and Jewish historians that made reference to Jesus. Tacitus, Josephus, Suetonius, Pliny the Younger, Thallus, Lucian, Mara Bar-Serapion. Josephus was jewish historian who surrendered to the Romans and took the new name Flavious. He wrote this in his Antiquities of the Jews (AD 94) referring to the time of Pilate:
"At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good and [he] was known to be virtuous. Many people from among the Jews and other nations became his desciples. Pilate condemed him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his desciples did not abandon his descipleship. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive; accordingly, he was perhaps the messiah concerning whom the prophets have recounted wonders."