A LOST piece of cedar found “by chance” at the University of Aberdeen could shed new light on the Great Pyramid.
The wood – one of only three objects ever recovered from inside the Wonder of the Ancient World – may have been donated to the university as a result of a connection between James Grant, who studied at Aberdeen and befriended Waynman Dixon in Egypt in 1872, when they discovered the relics in the Queen’s Chamber. The cedar was bequeathed to the university by his daughter in 1946 but, despite an extensive search was not found until the end of last year, when Egyptian curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany was reviewing items housed in its Asia collection.
Eladany said: “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.”
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