Executions and sacrifices
By: by Heather Moore Niver
Edition: First edition.
Series: Digging up the dead; Digging up the dead (Gareth Stevens Publishing)
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781482414851; 9781482412758; 9781482412307; 9781482413984
Subjects: Sacrifices; Human sacrifice; Executions and executioners; Sacrifice; Juvenile literature; Rites and ceremonies
Description: This book offers age-appropriate insight into some of history's mysterious and gruesome practices -- from the walls of the Shaanxi Province in China to the murky red waters of Ireland's peat bogs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.3 1.0 169045.
Table of contents: title: Punishments and offerings; title: Sacrifices in Sudan; title: Curious craniums; title: Beware the bog bodies; title: Creepy in Crete; title: Meet the Moche; title: The viking blood eagle; title: Left to die; title: Extreme execution; title: Burning at the stake; title: Brazen bull; title: Death by ... plant?; title: Learning from the past.