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. ”
Zēnus un meitenes viņi sadedzināja dzīvus vai pataupīja vēl baisākam liktenim; vīriešus uzdūra uz mietiem vai tiem dzīviem nodīrāja ādu, izdūra acis, nocirta rokas un kājas vai nogrieza ausis un degunu. ”