Ancient Egyptian Statuette Mysteriously Starts Doing 180s in Museum
Posted by Tony on June 24th, 2013Something weird is going on concerning a 10-inch statue of Neb-Sanu that is on display at the Manchester Museum.
This small statue is turning around…by itself.
During the course of the day Neb-Sanu’s little statue decides it’s done being stared at by museum guests so quietly and very, very slowly it turns itself around to face the other way.
While many are saying that vibrations from museum guests are causing vibrations in the glass shelves that the statue sits on causing it to turn around, the museum staff is disagreeing with the idea.
“But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before. And why would it go around in a perfect circle?”
Egyptologist Campbell Price who works at the museum has even weighed in with his somewhat eerie thoughts:
“I noticed one day that it had turned around. I thought it was strange because it is in a case and I am the only one who has a key. I put it back but then the next day it had moved again. We set up a time-lapse video and, although the naked eye can’t see it, you can clearly see it rotate on the film. The statuette is something that used to go in the tomb along with the mummy. Mourners would lay offerings at its feet. In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. Maybe that is what is causing the movement.”
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