After 100 Years: Ancient Wooden Relic From The Great Giza Pyramid Found in Scotland Published December 17th, 2020 - 11:41 GMT
The surprising find was discovered in the University of Aberdeen s museum collections after it was thought lost for more than a century (Twitter)
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The fragment was originally discovered by Waynman Dixon in 1872 as he was exploring the Queens Chamber of the pyramid.
An ancient wooden relic, lost for over a century and one of just three items retrieved from the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, has been discovered in the archives of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
The wooden fragment, part of a collection known as the Dixon Relics after the man who discovered them, is thought to have been from a cedar measuring ruler, and could shed new light on the construction of the pyramid.