I know that this is for literal educational purposes, but still I'm just sat here nearing a panic attack at the thought of any of these being done to anyone.
What's crazy is that a lot of victims were innocent people. Either you're forced to plead guilty to a crime you didn't commit or simply used as a sacrifice to the Gods.
Don’t forget that an important part of scaphism os that the overfeeding of milk and honey caused horrible diarrhea that would make the experience of being stuck between the boats much worse!
You lost me at the iron maiden. No spikes have ever been found in one before. Someone at some point just thought it would look way more gruesome if it did.
As my Roman history professor put vestal virgin burials: They couldn’t straight up kill the vestal virgins, so they locked them away, and if they chose to die, that’s on them.
The subject at 19:13 genuinely scared me because before it started talking about it, I thought it was something way more inappropriate than the youtube algorithm would allow, thank goodness I was proven wrong but still awful!
