5/22/2023 0 Comments The buried giant meaning![]() It's not known whose hands they were they could have been Egyptians or people the Hyksos were fighting in the Levant. "You deprive him of his power eternally," Bietak explained. ![]() "Each pit represents a ceremony."Ĭutting off the right hand, specifically, not only would have made counting victims easier, it would have served the symbolic purpose of taking away an enemy's strength. "Our evidence is the earliest evidence and the only physical evidence at all," Bietak said. ![]() ![]() The hands appear to be the first physical evidence of a practice attested to in ancient Egyptian writing and art, in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold, Bietak explains in the most recent edition of the periodical Egyptian Archaeology. ![]()
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