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 ...

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 ...