Haunting Discovery: Medieval Skeletons Bear Evidence of Barbaric Punishment
By Rossella Lorenzi, Live Science Contributor | June 19, 2017 07:03am ET
Archaeologists who were digging in a medieval Portuguese necropolis unearthed three skeletons of young men who had their hands and feet cut off just before they died.
Most likely the consequence of judicial punishment, the gruesome amputation was inflicted on the men between the 13th and 15th centuries in the town of Estremoz, a city in southern Portugal, close to the Spanish border.
https://www.livescience.com/59529-medieval-skeletons-with-hands-feet-amputated.html
