The Assyrians certainly used crucifixion. They brag on all their monuments about the enemies they’ve crucified, impaled and burned alive.
But I’m not entirely sure nobody came up with crucifixion before them without our having come across the records. Humans have always been amazingly fertile in invention of ways to kill people slowly and painfully.
’ Humans have always been amazingly fertile in invention of ways to kill people slowly and painfully’
I was married to one of those once, got out just in time.