Many forms of torture were utilized during the Middle Ages. But the rack was perhaps the most popular and most feared. Although it was common for joints to be dislocated during the process, the ...

If the metal-spiked interrogation chair wasn't enough to make a sadomasochist gulp, the 10-foot wooden impaler would surely do the trick. And so would most of the other medieval torture and death ...

Tropical ants build and set a trap that resembles a medieval torture rack. They use this ingenious setup to capture insect prey much larger than themselves, then rip the victim apart. These ants have ...

Tucked away in a second-floor annex off bustling St. George Street is the Medieval Torture Museum which invites visitors to travel down a dark candlelit hallway and, accompanied by a gothic soundtrack ...

The English historian James Anthony Froude once said. “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself”. And it would ...

At the opening of “Late Medieval Panel Paintings” at Richard Feigen Gallery on the Upper East Side, a group of people had formed around one particularly gruesome work, The Torture of the Maccabean ...

A Medieval skeleton discovered in Italy has shown "signs of decapitation" and is believed to be the first case of a "torture wheel" in the country. The research, published in the Journal of ...

French philosopher Georges Bataille wrote in his 1949 essay The Cruel Practice Of Art that art "puts us on the path of complete destruction and suspends us there for a time, [offering] us ravishment ...

A. brevis ants waiting to ambush their giant prey. Schmidt et al. Crucial to the success of these “group ambush” attacks is the location of the traps. The ants set up shop in the branches of plants ...