Museum Can’t Explain Why Ancient Statue Suddenly Started Spinning - Gawker
An ancient statue made as an offering to Osiris, the Egyptian god of death, that is currently housed at the Manchester Museum in England has suddenly started spinning inside its closed display case — and no one seems to know why.
A time-lapse video released by the museum shows the 4000-year-old relic of Neb-Senu slowly turning around inside its case without any apparent assistance from the outside world.
Found in a mummy’s tomb some 80 years ago, the statue has been kept encased at the museum ever since.
Its current caretaker, Campbell Price, was the first one to notice the strange phenomenon, and says he first realized something was off when he found the statue askew, reset it, and then found it askew again the following day.
“In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit,” Price, and Egyptologist by trade, told the Manchester Evening News. “Maybe that is what is causing the movement.”
This is everything I want mummy related statues to be
no no stooooop
I’m so cool with this
i’m gonna go into manchester museum and sit in front of this statue for a few hours and see if it moves. Because I can
and seeing it move in person would be a lot more unnerving.
I look forward to your report on this. I really want to know about it.
can you imagine being the spirit of a powerful ancient egyptian nobleman trapped for 4000 years in this thing and all you can do is slightly rotate it over time
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