This moment has been a long time coming! Archaeologists have finally found a cache of SEVERED HANDS!
This isn't the skeletal remnants of Thing, though the resemblance is startling....
http://www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-ancient-egypt-palace.html
Rather, this gruesome practice has been known about for sometime through temple depictions whereby the right hands of enemies were lopped off, piled together, counted, and then presented before the king. It was much more efficient to transport some hands than a bunch of bodies, and I'm sure much more sanitary... though piles of dead hands still have their own problems. In some depictions, penises were severed instead, which would be a bit harder to find archaeologically, but can you imagine trying to tell your supervisor that?! Congratulations to Professor Bietak and the excavators at Avaris!
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