Posted on 01/22/2014 7:32:37 PM PST by Fractal Trader
For more than two centuries, a dark and sinister secret has laid buried deep within the walls of the ancient Bithynian kingdom.
Archaeologists excavating the 2,300-year-old remains of the region in modern-day Bursa, Turkey have uncovered a series of dungeons and tunnels that would have been used to lead prisoners to their death.
Inside these dungeons, the researchers also found torture chambers, death pits and even a well covered in what appears to be blood. Archaeologists excavating city walls of the 2,300-year-old region of Bithynia in modern-day Bursa, Turkey, have uncovered a series of dungeons and tunnels. Stock image of Bursa walls pictured. Inside these dungeons, the researchers found torture chambers, death pits and even a well covered in what appears to be blood
Archaeologists excavating city walls of the 2,300-year-old region of Bithynia in modern-day Bursa, Turkey, have uncovered a series of dungeons and tunnels. Stock image of Bursa walls pictured. Inside these dungeons, the researchers found torture chambers, death pits and even a well covered in what appears to be blood
Bithynia was an ancient kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor between 297 and 274BC. The dungeons were found during restoration of the Zindan Kapi part of the wall, in the Alacahirka region of modern-day Bursa.
These dungeons were connected to towers where prisoners would have been kept.
Hangmen of the time, who were deaf and mute, would have cut off the heads of the prisoners and thrown them into the well, while remaining body parts were given to the prisoner’s relatives.
The hangmen were also known to have sold the dead bodies back to the families for a price.
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Ping.
Sounds like a long hot summer weekend in Chicago.
Forerunners of the R.O.P.
Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan in the 1930’s pulp magazines, was right.
To me, it’s amazing that all of these civilization artifacts of a few thousand years are buried under so much dirt, rocks, and rubble, only to be located a few thousand years later.
Has global warming piled so much rubble over our history???
This doesn’t sound like a real nice place.
I think that I will take waterboarding torture!!!
...............The hangmen were also known to have sold the dead bodies back to the families for a price..............
” Okk, Mohammad, would you like a thigh or the leg, rare or well done??
Raziaish, how about a nice left arm??
Muzmat, I know that you’re an ass man, the left cheek is more well done!
If I understand this story correctly, the researchers also found torture chambers, death pits and even a well covered in what appears to be blood......
OK....I fixed the title.
Really?
I didn't catch that part.
Could you repeat it? Several times?
This was pre-Muzzies.
Not everyone who lives—or lived—in that area is a muslim.
Unlike yourself, I’ve been there and know this to be true.
Tard.
I know, I know - it was unkind, but I just couldn’t resist.....
And, Guys?
They found torture chambers, death pits and even a well covered in what appears to be blood, too.
In case you missed that part ..... about the chambers, pits, well and blood.
Notably absent from this discovery were the remains of any comfy chairs, soft cushions (with the stuffing all up one end) or any Cardinal’s robes.
Not that anyone expected.......
;’)
I had an office chair that morphed into something like that once.
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