A curatorial assistant found the wood fragments in a misfiled cigar box bearing the image of Egypt's old flag. University of Aberdeen In 1872, two British men took a trio of artifacts from the Great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-lost relic from the Great Pyramid of Giza has been uncovered by accident, stashed in a cigar box at a Scottish university.

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 ...

A long-lost Egyptian artefact has been found in a cigar box in Aberdeen - and it is hoped it could shed new light on the Great Pyramid. The chance discovery was made by a member of staff at the ...

It was by sheer coincidence when an Egyptian researcher found a rare missing artifact taken from the Khufu’s pyramid, in an unlikely source – tucked inside a cigarette box at the University of ...

LONDON, United Kingdom — One of only three artifacts ever recovered from inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid has been found in a misplaced cigar tin in a Scottish university collection, academics revealed on ...