oh, the inhumanity
A macabre encyclopedia of humanity’s most creative cruelties
Corpse Desecration
Armies and rulers turned the bodies of their enemies into instruments of communication, transforming death into a public warning meant for the living. By tracing trophy display across cultures and centuries, it reveals how power learned to travel farther than soldiers by engraving fear directly onto the landscape.
impalement
Man has raised monuments to his gods, his kings, and his victims — impalement was all three at once.