The old town in Egypt Keep Hand pieces

Axel Krause one piece's right hand were found on the Hiksos Palace at Avaris (modern Tell el-Daba) in Egypt.

Cairo, KOMPAS.com – old city of Avaris in Egypt kept the pieces of a human hand. Scientists find it through the recent excavations where there are 16 pieces of hand found buried in four different mining wells.

Two wells were dug it allegedly located in an ancient Palace of the King's throne room in Egypt. Each well is keep 1 hand. As for the other two wells located outdoors store 14 piece King hands more. All pieces are hand right hand. There's no one else left hand.

"Most of the hands that are large and very large," said Manfred Bietak, Chairman of project excavations, Live Science, was quoted as saying Friday (10/8/2012).

The hands are exactly found in the Nile delta, northeast of Cairo. Hands that are the property of people who live kaum 3,600 years ago when Hiksos, people from North Canaan, took control of Egypt and established the seat of Government in Avaris, the location of what is now part of the city of Tell el-Daba. When hands were landfilled, the Kingdom was ruled by the King of local Khayan.

In his publication in the journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Bietak reveals that this discovery to be evidence of ritual cutting of hands during this time described in the arts as well as manuscripts of ancient Egypt. "Our Evidence is evidence of the oldest and the only physical evidence that there is," said Bietak.

According to, the practice of cutting hand Bietak usual carried out by soldiers. Each soldier would get the Gold if it works right hand cut off the enemy. Same with right hand cuts reduce the strength of the enemy.

Bietak said has not been able to find out the owner's hands. Their owners could have been people or persons Hiksos Egypt. According to him, the practice of cutting a hand indeed has become a tradition of Egypt and Hiksos. However, it is not yet known where the origin of the practice. The tradition was started by one nation or "imported" from other places.

Cutting the hands of cruel practices are not the only in ancient Egypt. Palate palette, objects derived from 5,000 years ago, shows that Pharaoh Egypt did a decapitation or destroy human head kneeling to her.