With Easter on the horizon, History is getting down to the brass tacks — or should that be iron nails? — of Jesus’ crucifixion and the period immediately after that.

Relic fans will want to tune in at 11 p.m. on Wednesday for “Nails of the Cross.”

Although it originally aired back in December as part of History’s “Secrets of Christianity” series, according to a network spokesperson, controversial documentary-maker Simcha Jacobovici recently held a press conference in Jerusalem to promote the documentary about his discovery of a pair of 2,000-year-old nails that might have been used in Jesus’ crucifixion.

Jacobovici showed off the nails — iron spikes with bent tips — and told journalists, “We’re not saying these are the nails. We’re saying these could be the nails.”

The Israel Antiquities Authority reports stated that two, 3-inch Roman iron nails were originally discovered in 1990, inside what Israeli archeologists believed was the tomb of Caiaphas, a Jewish high priest who, according to the Gospels, delivered Jesus to Pontius Pilate.

Somehow those nails — neither sketched nor photographed — were lost, but around that time Tel Aviv University received two ancient nails and placed them in a safe. That’s where they remained until Jacobovici found them 20 years later and speculated that those were the same lost nails.

As bio-history research Professor Israel Hershkowitz says in the documentary, “Based on the size, shape and condition of the nails, it is possible that these were used in crucifixion,” although he’s reluctant to speculate on whose crucifixion it might have been.

The controversy here, as experts point out, stems from the fact that there’s no actual proof that the nails from the documentary are the same ones discovered in Caiaphas’ tomb — if, indeed, it was his tomb at all.

Jacobovici, who hosts History’s “The Naked Archeologist,” also directed Discovery’s equally controversial “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” in 2007, executive produced by James Cameron.

If it seems strange that History would bury such a potentially significant documentary with an 11 p.m. airtime, it’s only because it’s a repeat, the network insists, while 9 p.m. primetime lead-in “Jesus: The Lost 40 Days” is a premiere.