One such scene found in the ruins of an Assyrian palace shows a rebellious governor named Dananu before his horrible torture and execution—as Dananu walks to his own death, the relief shows him pictured with the severed head of one of his coconspirators hanging around his neck as he is being abused, spat on, and beaten by Assyrians passing by.* Simply having a severed human head draped around one’s neck seems macabre enough, but to have known the dead person makes it particularly horrific and psychologically torturous. The ancient era, as the biblical Old Testament attests, excelled at such
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