Scientists have learned about the terrible details of the sacrifices in the Ancient China.
This they have learned from their excavations in Insull, which began in 1928 and lasted for several decades.
Archaeologists during excavations found a huge amount of mass graves, carefully placed throughout the ancient capital. In most of the graves lay the remains of 10, 30 and 50 people. The total number of individuals found in these graves reaches 13 thousand.
Archaeological finds have allowed to know that human sacrifice was practiced in ancient China for thousands of years by the three dynasties – Xia, Shang, and Zhou. On average, each of the sacrificial ceremony has claimed the lives of fifty people. During the largest sacrifices were simultaneously killed 339 people.
According to the researchers, there are several ways of sacrifice. It was a decapitation, cleaving or cutting the body in half, quartering, the gradual cutting off of body parts to death, beating to death, exsanguination, buried alive, drowning, burning, welded in boiling water, death by the scorching sun and the “drying up” of already dead bodies to the state of the cured meat.
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