Bizarre Archaeological Finds That Still Baffle Scientists Today

Shackled Skeletons

Skeletons have been found shackled to walls in more European countries than you can probably count. This primitive method of incarceration quite literally killed people, and sometimes the guards would just leave the bodies to decompose in their cells. This was supposed to send a message to the next person to end up in there, who also probably suffered the same fate. 

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