Late last year, curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany was reviewing items in the University of Aberdeen s museum collections, when she came across an item that didn t seem to belong.
Eladany, who is originally from Egypt and had spent a decade working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, noticed the country s
former flag on an unassuming cigar box. She opened it up to find small pieces
of wood inside and, after cross checking it with museum records, realized she had stumbled upon
a
lost artifact from the Great Pyramid of Giza, the centerpiece of an enduring archaeological mystery.
Only three objects have ever been recovered from inside the Great Pyramid a trio of items known as the
The wood is one of three objects recovered from in the Great Pyramid of Giza
Two other relics - a ball and hook - are currently housed at the British Museum
They are know as the Dixon Relics after Waynman Dixon who found them in 1872
Archaeologist Abeer Eladany found the cedar wood inside a cigar tin
Now in several pieces, the object is believed to date back to 3341-3094BC
One theory is it is the remains of a ruler used in the construction of the Pyramid
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Updated 05 April 2021
April 05, 2021 10:00
SAN JOSE: More than a dozen San Jose, California, police officers walked through the white arches of the Grand Century Mall in “Little Saigon” to reassure a Vietnamese-American community fearful over the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States.
The officers walked through the arcade of hair and nail salons, restaurants serving Vietnamese cuisine, and herbal medicine shops on Saturday, talking to business owners and patrons. They then conducted a similar tour of San Jose’s Japantown, where a citizen patrol group was formed following the deadly attacks on Asian spas in the Atlanta area on March 16.
One of only three artefacts ever recovered from inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid has been found in a misplaced cigar tin in a Scottish university collection, academics revealed on Wednesday.
The fragment of cedar wood, which has been found to date back 5,000 years to the building of the pyramid at Giza, was first discovered in the late 19th century but had been missing for more than 70 years.
A record discovered in 2001 appeared to show the fragment – found alongside a ball and a bronze hook thought to be used for construction – had been donated to the University of Aberdeen.
But the trail ran cold and the ancient artefact disappeared almost without a trace until the end of last year when an assistant curator at the university, Abeer Eladany, originally from Egypt, made a chance discovery in its Asia collection.