10 Strange Archaeological Finds Straight Out Of A Horror Story

Listverse ^ | MAY 7, 2017 | MARK OLIVER

[21twelve]

Interesting stuff - thanks for posting it. Sounds like it was written for a click bait site, so I’m glad that I didn’t need to wade through all of that.

A construction team working in Herxheim, Germany, unearthed something absolutely horrifying.
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Underneath the ground where they had intended to build was a massive pit full of dead bodies—more than 1,000 in all.
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The bodies had been resting there for more than 7,000 years.
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[NoCmpromiz]

PFL

[Red Badger]

This pit, though, along with others like it, supports the idea that life in 4000 BC was often brutal and violent

Genesis 6:

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

[jalisco555]

Cruelty can be a powerful deterrent. Crassus’ decision to crucify the prisoners taken in the Third Servile War along the Appian Way ensured there was no Fourth Servile War.

[miliantnutcase]

Hah that figures I’d see you here!

[Oatka]

The Shackled Skeletons Of Athens - "But the archaeologists who found them think that they were nobles executed for staging a coup."
As it should be for traitors. I'll bet there wasn't another coup attempt for a very long time.

The BBC had an episode about the Queen Elizabeth I (1558) and how she handled an aborted coup. She gave the torturer/executioner a chilling order, "Think of something new."

Knowing how brutal those times were, one can only imagine. The episode didn't go into much detail, IIRC, only showing the executioner telling the victim, as he probed his crotch, 'You came into this life through here and will leave it the same way."

[SunkenCiv]

"...and for dessert, lady fingers.".

[Little Ray]

Samurai were head hunters. They took the heads of their defeated opponents.
Bringing back the heads of defeated enemies from Korea was a bit of an effort, so they settled for just the noses.
I bring you “Mimizuka - Ear Mound.” (The Japanese switched the story from noses to ears, but it was noses...)
https://infogalactic.com/info/Mimizuka

[TigersEye]

There are circumstances where the old ways still make sense to me. :)

[wildbill]

Proof of an ancient inalienable right to bury arms