[Angelahh]

I'll take a sofa-size print for my living room

[Zambini]

Originally Posted by Karma ↗

I'd love to know why they did this. What the crime was. I think we should do that now! Also, I wonder what the small bowls on the ground were for? Some kind of animal food bowls? Never seen a torture/murder device like that before. Great find.

Who says they were being tortured or murdered?

You gotta keep your stuff locked up tight in China, or somebody will steal it!

Looks well fed and active to me!

[Pyramid_Head]

Man, talk about a horrible way to die.

[The Driver]

there is 2 boards there where the head and arm are through the hole, if it was life or death im sure you could pull them 2 boards back inside with you and get ya self out

[TheJewishYeti]

Bet she was real thrilled when she looked over at the dick taking her picture instead of helping her

[PlinyTheYounger]

Reminds me of the scorpion-chest scene in Hook.

[MrCorpse]

Nice find

[ArKrayzie]

Nice pick, suck ass way to die, like you almost got it, and nope death becomes her.

[Arkoquisa]

some things to remember,

1. this will take several days, if not a week or more (those bowls and dishes on the ground may be given once a day, we don't know)... plus the longer one would be able to live like that, the worse it would be

2. this is in the middle of the desert, most likely the gobi. searing heat in the day and deathly cold at night. makes #3 very bad

3. the urine and feces would burn the skin from its exposure, and cause infections as well.

4. maybe there is a time limit?, does anyone know if this was done and the person let out after punishment?

I've read about this kind of death many years ago and always wanted to see how it was done. i always imagined a box so small you couldn't move, and heard that your head was stuck out of the box so birds would pick you while dying, and suffer the elements too... glad y'all liked my little find

i suppose,.. that if lucky enough, one could have been put there in the morning on an exceedingly hot summer day, one may be able to sweat enough and pass enough urine to die within a day... maybe

[gatagato]

Though the image is often captioned as "A Mongolian Woman Condemned to Die of Starvation" or something like that, the original caption just reads "Mongolian prisoner in a box, July 1913" (Photo taken by Stéphane Passet).
There's a different explanation to the photo but of course i don't know which one of the two is correct:

The image shown is of a female Mongolian prisoner. Passet recorded that she had been imprisoned for adultery but historians have cast doubt on this, as Mongolian culture of the time was thought to be tolerant of adultery.

The purpose of imprisoning people in a box in this way was to allow the nomadic people to transport prisoners from place to place. It was 'portable imprisonment'.

People who took pity on prisoners were allowed to leave them food and water and small bowls can be seen in the photograph, just beyond the reach of the incarcerated woman.

Also to carry a prisoner in a heavy cage is way less comfortable than just tie her hands and force her to walk, so not i'm not sure the second explanation makes much more sense than the first one.