Assyriologist Archibald Henry Sayce describes the barbarities that followed the capture of a town: “Pyramids of human heads marked the path of the conqueror; boys and girls were burned alive or reserved for a worse fate; men were impaled, flayed alive, blinded, or deprived of their hands and feet, of their ears and noses. ”
კაცებს ძელზე აკრავდნენ, ცოცხლად ატყავებდნენ, თვალებს თხრიდნენ, ან ხელებს, ფეხებს, ყურებსა და ცხვირებს აჭრიდნენ “.