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Experts at the Manchester Museum in Great Britain were puzzled to learn that an ancient Egyptian statuette began to turn around in a mysterious way while inside the exhibition stand.
The 25 cm tall statue of Neb San, which was sacrificed to Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, was discovered in the mummy's tomb. It has been in the museum for 8 years, but it has only recently been noticed that it is moving.
Campbell Price, an Egyptologist at the Manchester Museum, filmed the statue gradually turning to a slow motion camera.
“One day I noticed that it had turned around,” he said. “It was weird because I'm the only one who has keys. I put it back in, but it moved again the next day.”
Egyptian mysteries
“In ancient Egypt, it was believed that if a mummy was destroyed, the statuette would become an alternative vessel for the soul. Maybe that's what set it in motion.”
The statuette, made around 1800 BC, was presented to the museum in 1933 and remained motionless most of the time.
Now it is often found with its back facing the stand, possibly showing a list of offerings to the dead on the back side that reads “bread, beer, bulls and birds”.
However, Professor Brian Cox, a well-known television physicist, believes that the motion is caused by an uneven friction force. He suggested that vibrations from the footsteps of passing visitors make the statuette turn.
However, Mr. Price noticed that the figurine did not rotate before, despite being on the same surface. Plus, she turns in a perfect circle.
The video shows the statuette turning to the left for 3 days
Egyptian Tombs: The Curse of the Pharaohs
The curse of the pharaohs refers to the belief that a person who disturbs a mummy, especially a pharaoh's mummy, is in danger of bad luck, illness, or death.
The phenomenon became known after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in Egypt.
After its discovery and the discovery of a large number of treasures hidden for more than 3,000 years, a series of deaths followed, first by one of Lord Carnavon's explorers, and then 6 more people who participated in opening the tomb within a decade.
Many scientists disprove the phenomenon of curses and believe that deaths are caused by logically explained causes, such as poisons in tombs, bacteria, or radiation.