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. Credit: University of Aberdeen