The ‘most painful torture device’ has been seen in so many films, shows, and has been told throughout history — but experts have weighed in on whether it was real or not.
The implications of such ancient cruelty go beyond mythology and into the psychology of suffering — which modern wellness professionals and chronic illness experts now explore in trauma-related care.
From blood eagles to keelhauling, or even entombment, our ancestors sure knew how to murder a person. But this device took the top spot for pure cruelty.
A a type of brutality that would today trigger international legal reviews, human rights violations, and forensic pathology investigations. Let’s go back to the sixth Century BC, when Perilaus of Athens,
An Ancient Greek inventor, apparently came up with the Brazen Bull — a symbol of tyranny that has been used in cautionary tales as much as historical speculation.
This invention was a giant sculpture of a bronze bull which featured a hatch in the belly, and pipes in the bull’s mouth to carry the screams of its victims (apparently sounding like a bull’s call).
