The Pharaohs Curse has struck again 2013

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Egypt l Ancient Egyptian statue at Manchester Museum moves on its own, stumped curator says


Pharaoh Curse


The Pharaoh Curse has struck again.
The movement appears confined to the daytime. 
A millenia-old, 10-inch-tall statuette has Manchester Museum employees stumped after it did a total 180-degree turn without anyone touching it.

The Curse of the pharaohs refers to the belief that any person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person, especially a pharaoh

The millenia-old statuette is 10 inches tall.

Part of the English museum’s collection since 1933, the mystery of the Neb-Senu statute’s diurnal movement has curator Campbell Price scratching his head. After first noticing it in February, the Egyptologist set up a video camera to record the statue.

“I noticed one day that it had turned around,” he told the Manchester Evening News. “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 Neb-Senu statue has been part of the museum’s collection since 1933.

The movement appears confined to the daytime and seems to cease at night. That’s quite the opposite from a movie like “Night at the Museum,” during which exhibits would come to life at night at New York’s American Museum of Natural History.

Price hasn’t quite gone to Hollywood yet to find an answer but has consulted with British physicist Brian Cox, the Evening News reported.

Celebrity scientist Brian Cox thinks the movement is caused by “differential friction” and a slight vibration, but the curator says the statue had been on the same surfaces long before without turning.

The celebrity scientist thinks it’s “differential friction” and a slight vibration that causes the movement, Price said.

“But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it, and it has never moved before,” Price said. “And why would it go around in a perfect circle?”

Early scientists who explored the tombs feared the “curse of the Pharaohs,” though Price wrote on his blog that “most Egyptologists are not superstitious people.” He suggested in February a test to apply wax to the bottom of the Neb-Senu statue to see if it continued to move.

“The statuette is something that used to go in the tomb along with the mummy,” said Price. “Mourners would lay offerings at its feet. The hieroglyphics on the back ask for ‘bread, beer and beef’. 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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