In ancient Persia, there existed an execution method where a tower/room was filled with ash, into which the condemned person was plunged.
[1] In about 162 BC, Menelaus, Jewish high priest at Jerusalem was apparently put to death in this manner by Lysias, regent for Antiochus V, on charges of rebellion.
[3] Nezahualcoyotl, a 15th-century, pre-Columbian, non-Aztec Acolhuan ruler of Texcoco in modern Mexico, designed a law code that is partially preserved.
Those who had engaged in the active role of homosexual anal intercourse were suffocated in a heap of ash.
Their passive partners had their intestines pulled out, then their bodies were filled with ash, and finally, were burnt.