the severing of hands was a rare punishment in ancient Egypt, which is why Dr. Bietak said it was unlikely that the hands found in Avaris were from criminals. But such severings were a relatively ...

Tel Al-Dabaa, or Avaris in ancient times, was also Egypt's capital and it has still not yet been totally explored and studied because most of its ancient ruins are still hidden within the town's ...

Historians disagree about whether the Hyksos came to Egypt as invaders or gradually ... were excavated from a site called Tell El-Dab (ancient Avaris) in the courtyard of a palace that seems ...

located in an ancient city of Avaris (modern-day Tell el-Dab'a) in northern Egypt's eastern Nile delta region. In the new study, researchers suggest that at least 11 of the hands belonged to males ...