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[the L]

"Most of the hands are quite large and some of them are very large," Manfred Bietak, project and field director of the excavations.

http://www.livescien...ypt-palace.html

[Hilander]

I wonder who those very large hands belonged to, the Anunnaki.

[pallidin]

This part in the article made me chuckle:

One account is written on the tomb wall of Ahmose, son of Ibana, an Egyptian fighting in a campaign against the Hyksos. Written about 80 years later than the time the 16 hands were buried, the inscription reads in part:
"Then I fought hand to hand. I brought away a hand. It was reported to the royal herald."

[Abramelin]

It just proves Islamic fundamentalist fks had an ancient example.

Think "Sharia"

I was always convinced the fundamentalistic Islamic idiots never evolved beyond the Middle Ages, but now I am sure they never did.

Thanks The -L- .



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Edited by Abramelin, 13 August 2012 - 08:55 PM.

[Etu Malku]

I wonder if the Islamic practice of severing hands for crimes was carried over from the Canaanites, and this is what they found?

[Simbi Laveau]

Many cultures cut off hands for thievery . Some for war trophies .

[Etu Malku]

Simbi Laveau, on 13 August 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:

Many cultures cut off hands for thievery . Some for war trophies .

Like who else?

[Simbi Laveau]

Etu Malku, on 13 August 2012 - 10:43 PM, said:

Like who else?

Cutting off hands in colonial America ,for theft,was quite common
http://hsp.org/blogs...-to-the-pillory

American soldiers cut off ears and wore them as necklaces in Vietnam .hello .Modern times this stuff still goes on .
I want to say tribal stuff involved hands saved for war .
I want to say it goes on in the amazon ,But lots of instances

http://en.wikipedia....panese_war_dead


http://maxwellinstit...=8&num=1&id=183

http://www.metro.co....as-war-trophies
And american soldiers cut off the fingeof Afghani soldiers .

Edited by Simbi Laveau, 14 August 2012 - 01:00 AM.

[Simbi Laveau]

And ,as I said. Google it . Tons of examples,all over the place,all different eras

http://en.wikipedia....ongo_Free_State

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Etu Malku, on 13 August 2012 - 10:43 PM, said:

Like who else?

IIRC the Romans cut hands off corpses to tally the dead - less grusome then heads altough heads of dignitaries were taken as trophies and used as threats/warning to tribes in Gaul et al.

[Timonthy]

Eh nothing strange about the size...

[harley.quinn]

Poor hand-less people

[The_Spartan]

harley.quinn, on 14 August 2012 - 10:56 AM, said:

Poor hand-less people

Yeah, poor handless dead people....what where they going to with the hands since they were dead after all??

[King Fluffs]

Oh dear... I sure hope the police don't find my fingerprints on 'em.

I was an assassin in Egypt around that time.

[jbefumo]

soldiers then, soldiers now . . . brutish animals never evolve