Ah Tacitus, born in 56 CE is widely regarded as the greatest Roman historian of all time, but he is best known in apologetic circles for making one of the earliest pagan references to Christ and Christianity.
Christians treasured his off-the-cuff mention of Christ as it it were a gold nugget. But it appears they didn't want to save quite everything Tacitus wrote. His history of the emperor Tiberius has a curious gap of two years - from mid-29 C.E. to mid-31 C.E., including all of the year 30, often regarded as a likely year of the crucifixion, probably because the crucifixion never happened.
In the American Journal of
Ancient History, Vanderbilt University classical historian Robert Drews argues that early Christians deliberately expunged the section, and that this one spot was targeted because Christians were embarrassed by the great historian failing to make any mention of Jesus' death, or any of the spectacular events that occurred at the time of the supposed crucifixion. If Christians didn't squelch this passage, its absence is otherwise very strange and hard to explain (unlike other gaps in Tacitus, as Drews notes).
One might wonder if Christians destroyed the passage because it made a negative comment about Christ. Christians did a lot it book burning.
Regardless, even if Jesus did exist, it still doesn’t prove that any of the crazy stories written about him were true. Cesar is said to have walked on water, healed the sick, Dionis turned water into wine, etc. I can find fantastical stories all throughout history. The difference is, you might start to worship those people.