Editing Death by burning (section)

====Molten gold poured down the throat====
In 88 BC, [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]] captured the Roman general [[Manius Aquillius (consul 101 BCE)|Manius Aquillius]], and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat.<ref>''Steel'' (2013), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ae63Gjp21SgC&pg=PA98 p. 98]</ref> A popular but unsubstantiated rumor also had the [[Parthian Empire|Parthian]]s executing the famously greedy Roman general [[Marcus Licinius Crassus]] in this manner in 53 BC.<ref>[[Marcus Licinius Crassus]]</ref>
[[File:HulaguInBagdad.JPG|thumb|[[Hulagu Khan|Hulagu]] (left) imprisons Caliph Al-Musta'sim among his treasures to starve him to death (medieval depiction from "Le livre des merveilles", 15th century)]]

[[Genghis Khan]] is said to have ordered the execution of [[Inalchuq]], the perfidious [[Khwarazmian dynasty|Khwarazmian]] governor of [[Otrar]], by pouring molten gold or silver down his throat in {{circa|1220}},<ref>''Saunders'' (2001), [https://books.google.com/books?id=nFx3OlrBMpQC&pg=PA57 p. 57] According to the 13th-century historian [[Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi|al-Nasawi]], the governor Inal Khan (who had assassinated the [[Mongol]] ambassadors and thus given Genghis Khan cause to invade), had the molten gold poured into his eyes and ears, rather than down his throat. ''Cameron, Sela'' (2010), [https://books.google.com/books?id=SAX5ohFkcVgC&pg=PA128 p. 128]</ref> and an early-14th-century chronicle mentions that his grandson [[Hulagu Khan]] did likewise to the sultan [[Al-Musta'sim]] after the [[Siege of Baghdad (1258)|fall of Baghdad in 1258]] to the Mongol army.<ref>Crawford regards the Hulagu story as a legend ''Crawford'' (2003), [https://books.google.com/books?id=BfNqgYlo9fMC&pg=PA149 p. 149]</ref> ([[Marco Polo]]'s version is that [[Al-Musta'sim]] was locked without food or water to starve in his treasure room)
[[File:Theodor de Bry 78.jpeg|thumb|[[Theodor de Bry]] engraving of a Conquistador being executed by gold]]
The Spanish in 16th-century Americas gave horrified reports that the Spanish who had been captured by the natives (who had learnt of the Spanish thirst for gold) had their feet and hands bound, and then molten gold poured down their throats as the victims were mocked: "Eat, eat gold, Christians".<ref>''Cummins, Cole, Zorach'' (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=IUKBQfzKlIYC&pg=PA99 p. 99]</ref>

From the 19th-century reports from the [[Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)|Kingdom of Siam]] (present-day [[Thailand]]) stated that those who have defrauded the public treasury could have either molten gold or silver poured down their throat.<ref>''Begbie'' (1834), [https://books.google.com/books?id=0MwNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA447 p. 447]</ref>