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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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