Here are some facts about Egyptian Tortures in ancient Egypt:

Egyptian Tortures has existed long before the medieval period, the time where so many torture implements were developed and used. The first records of torture came from Egypt, where people who were considered untrustworthy were whipped by means of interrogation when a crime had been committed.

Prevention of Crime

The prevention of crime and apprehension of criminals was the duty of local officials and police forces. They opened investigations following complaints by citizens.

Ancient Egyptian reliefs show prisoners tied to a stake and being flogged. There were three kinds of beatings used to achieve a confession, (bejena, nejena, and menini). It was generally the back that was beaten, but legs and arms were flogged as well. Another means of persuasion was the threat to be exiled to Nubia, having body parts amputated or being tortured on the wood.

The punishments the ancient Egyptian courts could impose ranged from fines to beatings and, perhaps worst from the standpoint of the offender, to the elimination of his name from the tombs he was working on. He thus lost his hope for eternal life which was dependent on the continued existence of his name.

Rather than use the sparse, labor-intensive methods that were common in the Middle East, many of the European countries developed machinery to do the work for them. These implements of Egyptian Tortures were used for many purposes by many official agencies until the end of the Victorian era.

Concept of hell in Egyptian Religion

The concept of hell in the ancient Egyptian religion is very similar to those of our modern religions. Those who were judged unfavorably faced a very similar fate to our modern concept of hell, and perhaps even more specifically to the more Middle Age concept of it as a specific region beneath the earth.

For the damned, the entire, uncontrollable rage of the deity was directed against those who were condemned through their evils. They were tortured in every imaginable way and “destroyed”, thus being consigned to nonexistence.

These horrible punishments were carried out in the “slaughtering place” or “place of destruction”, and presided over by the fierce goddess Sekhmet, whose butchers hack their victims to pieces and burn them with inextinguishable fire, sometimes in deep pits or in cauldrons in which they are scorched, cooked and reduced to ashes. Demons feed on their entrails and drink their blood.

The confession was the basis for a conviction. Circumstantial evidence, witnesses, and Egyptian Tortures were means for achieving this confession. When the accused despite everything refused to confess, he was sometimes given the opportunity to have a witness speak in his favor, or as happened more rarely, he was released.