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When the lid was lifted, museum curators discovered a small collection of five ancient cedar pieces taken out of that Wonder of the World during a 19th century expedition into its mysterious depths.
In a stroke of good fortune, curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany was apparently going through objects in a packed storage room inside the museum s Asia Collection at the end of last year when she stumbled upon a colorful box that definitely was out of its element. Her first clue was that the box s top was emblazoned with a symbol of the former flag of Egypt.
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A group of Scottish museum researchers have ended their 2020 on a stellar note, discovering artefacts in a cigar box that belonged to the Great Pyramids of Giza.
Abeer Eladany had been curating artefacts in the University of Aberdeen’s Museums and Special Collections department when she noticed a cigar box looking out of place. Adorned with Egyptian imagery, it had a serial number predating a system that has been in use at the university for a very long time.
She uncovered a number of cedar wood fragments, which were radiocarbon dated back to the Egyptian pyramids. Weirdly enough, the elegant cigar case wouldn’t look out of place in an antiques market today.
Piece of Great Pyramid found in cigar tin in Scotland could unlock mystery to how they were built Shannon McDonagh
A group of Scottish museum researchers have ended their 2020 on a stellar note, discovering artefacts in a cigar box that belonged to the Great Pyramids of Giza.
Abeer Eladany had been curating artefacts in the University of Aberdeen’s Museums and Special Collections department when she noticed a cigar box looking out of place. Adorned with Egyptian imagery, it had a serial number predating a system that has been in use at the university for a very long time.
She uncovered a number of cedar wood fragments, which were radiocarbon dated back to the Egyptian pyramids. Weirdly enough, the elegant cigar case wouldn’t look out of place in an antiques market today.