Mongolia

The Mongolians carried on immurement right up until the early 1900s, the woman above was photographed in 1913. Not all of the victims were meant to die of hunger though as a newspaper cutting from 1914 shows:

“…the prisons and dungeons of the Far Eastern country contain a number of refined Chinese shut up for life in heavy iron-bound coffins, which do not permit them to sit upright or lie down. these prisoners see daylight for only a few minutes daily when the food is thrown into their coffins through a small hole”.

That’s even worse though, you would surely be praying for death to come.

Neo-Assyrian

The Neo-Assyrian Empire was well-known for being blood thirsty and proud of it. Here’s a report from Ashurnasirpal II (883—859 BC) who is clearly incredibly pleased with the horror he created:

“I erected a wall in front of the great gate of the city. I flayed the chiefs and covered this wall with their skins. Some of them were walled in alive in the masonry; others were impaled along the wall. I flayed a great number of them in my presence, and I clothed the wall with their skins. I collected their heads in the form of crowns, and their corpses I pierced in the shape of garlands..My figure blooms on the ruins; in the glutting of my rage I find my content”.

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