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The fragment of cedarwood dates back 5,000 years to the building of the pyramid at Giza. And although the relic was first discovered in the 19th century, the artefact was lost again for more than 70 years. A record found in 2001 appeared to show the fragment – discovered alongside a ball and a bronze hook thought to be used for building the Pyramids – had been donated to Aberdeen University.
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND While reviewing the Asian collections at the University of Aberdeen, curatorial assistant and archaeologist Abeer Eladany found several pieces of wood stored in an old cigar box, according to a
BBC News report. Her search of the museum’s records revealed that the fragments once made up a piece of cedar discovered in 1872 by engineer Waynman Dixon inside the Queen s Chamber of Egypt’s Great Pyramid. The artifact was eventually donated to the museum in 1946 and ended up in the wrong collection, Eladany said. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the wood dates to somewhere between 3341 and 3094 B.C. Researchers think it may have been used in the construction of the Great Pyramid, which is estimated to have occurred some 500 years later. “This may be because the date relates to the age of the wood, maybe from the center of a long-lived tree,” explained Neil Curtis of the Univers
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.
Ms 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, realised she had stumbled upon a lost artifact from the Great Pyramid of Giza, the centerpiece of an enduring archaeological mystery.
The old cigar box had been hidden in plain sight in the wrong collection.(University of Aberdeen)
5,000-year-old Egyptian artifact discovered in cigar box in Scotland
A long-lost artifact from the Queen s Chamber of the Great Pyramid in Giza has been rediscovered in Aberdeen. The relic was dated to somewhere between 3341 and 3094 BC, long before the construction of the pyramid.
The box was found among the Asia archives at the University of Aberdeen
A university worker in Scotland discovered a missing 5,000-year-old Egyptian artifact hidden among archives, academics revealed on Wednesday.
Curatorial assisant Abeer Eladany found a fragment of wood inside a cigar box emblazoned with an Egyptian flag as she perused the Asia section of the archives of the University of Aberdeen.