A barbaric form of torture has horrified historians for centuries - and is one of the most chilling forms of execution ever devised. Scaphism involved trapping a victim between two wooden boats, force ...

Scaphism, a brutal form of torture that has appalled historians for centuries, is considered one of the most horrifying methods of execution ever conceived. The gruesome practice involved confining a ...

When it comes to the grim art of human torture, there's nothing more simple and effective than what the Iranians did in the early Noughties. This was conducted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in ...

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Today, we explore some of the most horrifying and creative methods of torture ever created and implemented - punishments that reveal the darkest sides of history and challenge our faith in humanity.

Judicial investigations were practiced by both the royal court — for example, in England — and the Church, in their fight not only against heresy but also against other crimes within the jurisdiction ...

It could be burning religious heretics alive, which would ensure that there were no remains of the victim's body for followers to claim as relics. Or perhaps scaphism where the victim was sealed in a ...

Scaphism, also known as "the boats," is an ancient method of execution and torture. It involves placing the victim between two boats or hollowed-out tree trunks and forcing them to ingest a mixture of ...

In ancient Persia they invented a brilliantly horrible method of execution called scaphism where the doomed person was sealed in a tree trunk and fed junk food until they drowned or decayed in their ...

Buckle up your seatbelts, lads, this one is grim. An undertaker has revealed the worst way a person can be killed. When you think abut dying, not that you should really do that on a regular basis but ...