Severed hands found outside an ancient Egyptian palace confirm accounts of a trophy-taking custom called the “gold of honor.M. Beitak/blockquote>
Raise your hands if you’re sure!............
Pre Vietnam body count
he was a very bad stone cutter...
one day, he cut off both his hands. yes it got him out of work for a while, but c’mon, BOTH hands.
People had their hands cut off for stealing in that part of the world...and they probably still do it. Maybe a prison?? or where they were buried when they got blood poisoning.
I have no idea does not get you Grant Money.
I would have preferred to be paid in gold shekels.
If they had been female Amazon warriors, something else would have been severed.
I remember hearing about a pit of severed hands discovered back around 2010, and reported as war trophies of the Hyksos. Why is the article announcing the discovery ow?