Piece of Ancient Egypt discovered at Aberdeen University A missing 5,000-year-old artefact has been found in a cigar box at Aberdeen University.
The chance discovery, by curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany, could shed new light on the Great Pyramid, which is understood to be one of only three objects recovered from the pyramid.
Ms Eladany, who is originally from Egypt, conducted a review of the University’s Asia collection last year and noted the box had her country’s former flag on the top.
She explains what it felt like to discover the ancient piece of cedar wood: “Once I looked into the numbers in our Egypt records, I instantly knew what it was, and that it had effectively been hidden in plain sight in the wrong collection.