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What the Sassanids Did to Christian Families Left Even Rome Speechless

#history #medievalhistory #medieval Shapur II didn't persecute Christians — he engineered their erasure. In winter 340 AD, an edict rippled from Ctesiphon's ivory throne: Christians would pay double taxes to fund wars against Rome. Refusal meant not fines, but flesh — ears severed, thumbs crushed, bodies sawn to mock the cross they revered. Bishop Simeon bar Sabba'e refused to collect the levy. By Good Friday 341, the saw's teeth bit from crown to groin. This wasn't zealotry. This was asset liquidation. Primary sources reveal a five-phase apparatus: 1) unraveling hearths through village raids and informant bounties, 2) decapitating clergy hierarchy to scatter flocks, 3) flaying laity to deny trades to the faith, 4) targeting women as "sorceresses" to silence matrilines, 5) collective culls flooding basilicas crimson. In 1843, Hormizd Rassam's spade struck vellum at Nimrud — 147 leaves of the Acts of the Persian Martyrs, carbon-dated to 390 AD, proving these weren't legends but ledgers. Ultraviolet scans at the British Library revealed erased Zoroastrian curses beneath Syriac prayers. The empire lasted six centuries. But Tarbula's halved form outlasted the throne that ordered the saw. Vellum outlasts edicts. 👉 Subscribe to resurrect voices empire tried to erase 🔔 Because witnesses are how the machine stalls 🔴 #SasanianEmpire #ChristianPersecution #ShapurII #PersianMartyrs #AncientHistory #SyriacChristianity #DarkHistory ⚠️ This video serves educational purposes, drawing from the Acts of the Persian Martyrs, Sozomen, Theodoret, Ammianus Marcellinus, and peer-reviewed scholarship including Richard Payne's 2021 reassessment. Sensitive content is presented with gravity to honor victims and examine systematic power.