Lost Great Pyramid Artifact Discovered in Cigar Box

A few hours ago, the long-lost Egyptian Great Pyramid artifact was accidentally discovered in a cigar box at the University of Aberdeen.

Hoped to shed light on the construction process of the great pyramid, the late discovery was made by a member of staff at the University of Aberdeen during a collection review.

The small 5,000-year-old wood pieces were discovered for the first time by engineer Waynman Dixon among items inside the pyramid's Queens Chamber in 1872.

Furthermore, they were donated to the university in 1946 without identifying their location to the university. By chance, curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany found it while preparing for a review of items placed in the university's Asia collection.

El Adany is an Egyptian archaeologist who worked for 10 years in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

"Once I looked into the numbers in our Egypt records I instantly knew what it was, and that it had effectively been hidden in plain sight in the wrong collection," she expressed to the BBC.

The archaeologist added, "I'm an archaeologist and have worked on digs in Egypt but I never imagined it would be here in north-east Scotland that I'd find something so important to the heritage of my own country."

She continued, "It may be just a small fragment of wood, which is now in several pieces, but it is hugely significant given that it is one of only three items ever to be recovered from inside the Great Pyramid."

In the same context, Neil Curtis, head of museums and special collections, the University of Aberdeen, explained, "Finding the missing Dixon Relic was a surprise but the carbon dating has also been quite a revelation. It is even older than we had imagined.

Commenting on the importance of finding those pieces of wood, "This may be because the date relates to the age of the wood, maybe from the center of a long-lived tree. Alternatively, it could be because of the rarity of trees in ancient Egypt, which meant that wood was scarce, treasured, and recycled or cared for over many years."

He added: "It will now be for scholars to debate its use and whether it was deliberately deposited, as happened later during the New Kingdom when pharaohs tried to emphasize continuity with the past by having antiquities buried with them.

Curtis finalized, "This discovery will certainly reignite interest in the Dixon Relics and how they can shed light on the Great Pyramid."

The Great Pyramid construction process is still mysterious to the whole archaeologists. Many researchers attempted to unveil the thousands year secret.