If you think Ammon cutting off the Lamanite arms is gross, you don’t even know the half of it. Dismemberment is such a well-attested form of body-counting in the Ancient Near East that it would make both Legolas and Gimli get a little queasy. The Egyptian temple at Medinet Habu, from the time of Ramses III (12th century BC) contains a mural depicting a pile of hands collected for counting how many were killed in battle. The murals on the Gates of Shalmaneser III in Assyria depict soldiers bringi

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