[SunkenCiv]

A severed right hand discovered in front of a Hyksos palace at Avaris (modern-day Tell el-Daba). It would have been chopped off and presented to the king (or a subordinate) in exchange for gold. This discovery is the first archaeological evidence of the practice. At the time they were buried, about 3,600 years ago, the palace was being used by King Khayan. The Hyksos were a people believed to be from northern Canaan, they controlled part of Egypt and made their capital at Avaris on the Nile Delta. CREDIT: Photo by Axel Krause

[Lazamataz]

Give 'em a hand!

[Kirkwood]

Vulcan?

[Oratam]

"Most of the hands are quite large and some of them are very large."

"There were giants in the earth in those days."

[Track9]

So the enemy became a bunch of lefties. Seems things never change.

[little jeremiah]

Does “some of them were quite large” mean within the normal range or abnormal? I wish they’d give some dimensions.

[Ditter]

Hands or scalps, the spoils of war. Not as creepy as shrunken heads.

[bgill]

There must have been a glut of hands as the market for them bottomed out.

[JimRed]

Perhaps from a later Muslim occupation?

[skinkinthegrass]

...who knew; the Addams' Family "THING" has familial relatives in the ancient times...*salute!*

[martin_fierro]

in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold

"Cross my palm ... with palm!"

[martin_fierro]

in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold

The original Digital Age.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Approves.

[bunkerhill7]

These are hand-me-downs war trophies from the Pharaoh`s older brother.

[null and void]

[Dysart]

Ahmose took three hands and was given "gold in double measure,"

Unreported here is that his evil rebel twin, Dextrose, would lop off only the left hand of those he vanquished. Hence, the origin of the term ambidextrose! A lot of people don't know that.

[ApplegateRanch]

They are all right hands; there are no lefts.

Thou shalt not steal...

...so, they WERE Muslims before there were Muslims? ;-')

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold.***

There are wall paintings in Egypt showing baskets of cut off penes (penises?)of dead enemy soldiers.

[wildbill]

Maybe they used them for measuring horses.

On the other hand, you probably wouldn’t want to be the rulers right hand man.

[Fred Nerks]

IN SEARCH OF AMALEK

[LadyDoc]

the Egyptians cut off a right hand of the dead enemies and then they brought the hands back to be counted. That way they could figure out how many enemy died.

It sounds gruesome, but it was accurate. Often the phrase “I took x number of hands” meant I killed that many...

Sounds like the guy in the tomb was bragging of how many folks he killed, and kept souvenirs.

However, the Hyksos were not Egyptians but Semites, so the idea that it was the punishment of a thief also might be true.