‘Hugely significant’ lost artefact from Egyptian Great Pyramid found in cigar box in Aberdeen Mayank Aggarwal © Provided by The Independent
A “hugely significant” artefact believed to be over 5,000 years old and one of only three objects ever recovered from inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid has been found after going missing for more than 70 years – inside a cigar box in a Scottish university.
The discovery was made recently by curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany during a review of items in the University of Aberdeen’s Asia collection, when she found a cigar box which had several wooden fragments.
Ms Eladany cross-referenced it with other records and said once she checked the details in the university’s Egypt records she knew “what it was, and that it had effectively been hidden in plain sight in the wrong collection”.
Great Pyramid of Giza: what ancient artefact was found at Aberdeen University - and how did it end up there?
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Great Pyramid relic found in cigar box at university in Scotland
One of only three objects ever recovered from inside Egypt s Great Pyramid, wooden artefact may shed new light on ancient structure, says University of Aberdeen
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A lost artefact from the Great Pyramid of Giza that had been missing for more than 70 years was found in a cigar box at the University of Aberdeen by an Egyptian curatorial assistant.
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A lost artefact from Egypt s Great Pyramid of Giza has been discovered hidden in a cigar tin at the University of Aberdeen.
The item was discovered by curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany while she was reviewing items in the university s Asia collection late last year.
Eladany, who is originally from Egypt, was attracted to the cigar box because it was marked with her country s former flag.
Inside she found a series of small fragments of wood which, after cross checking museum records, she identified as materials from the Great Pyramid of Giza.
How an ancient Egyptian artefact was discovered in Aberdeen - and what it is? Chelsea Rocks © Provided by Edinburgh Evening News
In a miraculous case of ‘the right place at the right time’ an Egyptian researcher at the University of Aberdeen has discovered an ancient artefact which has been missing for over a century.
Wooden splits found in a cigar tin in the university’s Asia collection, could have been mistaken for something insignificant.
But the relic has now been confirmed as belonging to the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
So why is the discovery so important, and how did the artefact end up in Aberdeen of all places?
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