Disturbing truth behind 12 mysterious mutilated human hands found in ancient Egyptian burial pits after 3,500 years

THE disturbing information down 12 mutilated hands buried successful Ancient Egyptian burial pits has been revealed - and the mentation is drenched successful blood.

Scientists person recovered grounds the grisly find is linked to a convulsive ritual called the "gold of honour" - which was carried retired for a prestigious reward.

It turns retired the hands were presented to Pharaohs by Egyptian warriors who had severed them from their enemies.

This was done for a collar of golden beads.

Experts accidental that the severing was done precise carefully, arsenic determination was nary signs of unsmooth cutting.

French anthropologist Doctor Isabelle Crevecoeur said: "It's delicate work. That, for me, is simply a bully statement they did it for a ritual."

The hands were compared to trophies, the squad down the find revealed: "After removing immoderate attached forearm parts, the hands were placed successful the crushed with wide-splayed fingers, chiefly connected their palmar sides."

Extensive probe was carried retired to find the property and enactment of who the 12 hands belonged to.

As antheral scale fingers are known to beryllium longer than their ringing fingers, arsenic compared to women's fingers, 11 of the hands were determined to beryllium male.

It could not beryllium ruled retired that the twelfth manus was that of a female, the researchers said.

They estimated a minimum property astatine clip of each hand's dismemberment to beryllium determination betwixt 14 to 21 years, arsenic the bones were afloat formed and station adolescent.

The precocious property scope was estimated to beryllium nether 60, arsenic the hands amusement nary signs of age-related degeneration. 

It is inactive unclear if the hands were taken from surviving oregon dormant inviduvals, the squad explained.

They clarified that they: "Must person been brushed and flexible erstwhile they were placed into the pit."

This would person been earlier rigor mortis acceptable in, truthful the idiosyncratic could person been live erstwhile their manus was removed.

The astir apt script is they were placed into the pit determination betwixt 24 and 48 hours aft being removed from the remainder of the body. 

THE ANICENT HYKSOS PEOPLE

The find suggests that the ritual which progressive presenting Pharaohs with them was really practised a period earlier than archetypal thought.

They judge that the tomb inscriptions contiguous astatine the tract day backmost to 1550-1077BC.

But the hands suggest the ritual whitethorn person been practiced earlier then, arsenic they were recovered astatine the Hyksos palace.

This was the spot of power for Egypt's 15th Dynasty (1640–1530 BC).

It was hypothesized that the past Hyksos radical had 'recurring propagandist motives' for placing the severed hands wherever they were discovered.

The Hyksos, who ruled Egypt for astir a century, apt arrived from the eastern Mediterranean.

In the written study, the scientists urged caution, saying that we cannot enactment our ideas of what the play was similar that bash not realistically seizure the truth.

It reads: "Much accusation connected the lives, habits, and history of the Ancient Egyptians is depicted connected temple and tomb walls, arsenic good arsenic recorded connected papyri, etc.

"Like today, accusation tin make definite ideas, exert governmental influence, and besides contiguous facts successful a antithetic and not needfully realistic light.

"Unfortunately, successful history and adjacent much truthful successful prehistory, we are constricted to a fewer sources, sometimes lone to one."