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
TORONTO A curatorial assistant at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland has uncovered a missing 5,000-year-old fragment of wood that could offer a clue as to how Egyptian pyramids were built. Abeer Eladany says she made the discovery when she was conducting a review of items housed in the University’s Asia collection, which includes donated relics from the Great Pyramid of Giza. For more than a century, scholars have hypothesized about the weights and measurements used by builders of the pyramids. Some are now speculating that Eladany’s discovery may be part of a measuring stick that could reveal clues regarding the pyramid’s construction.
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