The Tees Valley shipbuilder whose 5,000-year-old find in the Great Pyramid is exciting archaelogists
THE world of archaeology has been alive this week with the news that a 5,000-year-old lost artefact from the Great Pyramid has been discovered in a cigar tin in a university collection. The fragment of cedar wood was discovered in a secret passage leading from the Queen’s Chamber in 1872 by engineer Waynman Dixon, a man with Cockfield in his blood who now rests in Great Ayton. Waynman placed the five-inch long piece of wood in the cigar tin with two other relics, a small stone ball and ...
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