When and Why Did Men Start Getting Circumcised?

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Having served variously as a mark of virility, servility and gentility, circumcision has throughout the centuries worn many symbolic hats. While anthropologists disagree as to the definitive origins of circumcision, the earliest hard evidence comes from the first ancient Egyptian mummies of considerable vintage, around 2300 BC. That being said, Egyptian paintings date circumcision to centuries prior, depicting ritual circumcision as prerequisite to entering the priesthood.

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http://www.covenantcircumcision.info/milah_vs_Periah.html
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http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/journal/issue/journal_35_3/doyle_circumcision.pdf
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