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.