Salyavin will have an "explanation" for this mystery no doubt - but the
statue still spinns :-) The turn of the mummy: The turn of the mummy:
God of death statue starts SPINNING on its own in Manchester museum...
but is this a sign that there really is a curse of the Pharaohs?
* 10-inch tall relic is an offering to Egyptian God Osiris, God of
the dead
* It has been filmed on a time lapse, seemingly spinning 180 degrees
* TV physicist Brian Cox among the experts being consulted on mystery
* But some now believe there could be 'spiritual explanation' for
turning statue
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THE curse of Tutankhamen is said to have claimed more than 20 lives. By
contrast, the curse of Neb-Senu amounts to little more than an
occasional inconvenience for museum curators. Over several days, the
ten-inch Egyptian statuette gradually rotates to face the rear of the
locked glass cabinet in which it is displayed, and has to be turned
around again by hand. Those who like tales of haunted pyramids and
walking mummies may regard the mystery of the 4,000-year-old relic
an offering to Osiris, god of the dead as the strangest thing to
hit Egyptology in decades. Scroll down for video
[Egyptologist Campbell Price studies an ancient Egyptian statuette at
the Manchester Museum, which appears to be moving on its own]
Egyptologist Campbell Price studies an ancient Egyptian statuette at the
Manchester Museum, which appears to be moving on its own
Others, including TV physicist Professor Brian Cox, have a more
down-to-earth explanation for its movement. Whatever the solution, the
puzzle certainly won't dent visitor numbers at its present home,
Manchester Museum. The statuette's slow about-turn has been captured
on film by a time-lapse camera, and curator Campbell Price, 29, says he
believes there may be a spiritual explanation. `I noticed one day
that it had turned around,' he said. `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. Spooky!
Egyptian statuette spins untouched inside glass case. [The
10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, has been at the museum
for 80 years but curators say it has recently starting rotating 180
degrees during the day]
The 10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, has been at the
museum for 80 years but curators say it has recently starting rotating
180 degrees during the day
`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.' The statue, made by one
Neb-Senu in about 1800BC, was donated to the museum in 1933, and had
been reassuringly immobile for most of that time. However Mr Price and
his colleagues are now used to finding it facing the rear of its case
perhaps significantly, displaying a prayer on the back requesting
`bread, beer, oxen and fowl'. [Experts decided to monitor the
room on time-lapse video and were astonished to see it clearly show the
statuette spinning 180 degrees - with nobody going near it]
Experts decided to monitor the room on time-lapse video and were
astonished to see it clearly show the statuette spinning 180 degrees -
with nobody going near it
[In this time lapsed video, as the museum closes for the evening,
the statue can be seen in a clearly different position]
In this time lapsed video, as the museum closes for the evening, the
statue can be seen in a clearly different position
[By midday the next day it has turned almost a quarter of a circle
to be facing to the left]
By midday the next day it has turned almost a quarter of a circle to be
facing to the left
[The following morning the statue has moved again, and is facing
even further away from its original position]
The following morning the statue has moved again, and is facing even
further away from its original position
[By the end of the day the statue has turned almost 180 degrees and
is now facing away from visitors to the museum]
By the end of the day the statue has turned almost 180 degrees and is
now facing away from visitors to the museum
Their video has recorded it rotating to its left over the course of
three days until facing backwards.
Even more mysteriously, it appears to spin only during daylight hours,
and does not turn beyond 180 degrees. Some, including Professor Cox,
have suggested that vibrations caused by the footsteps of passing
visitors makes the statuette turn on its glass shelf. Mr Price said:
`Brian thinks it's "differential friction" where two
surfaces, the stone of the statuette and glass shelf it is on, cause a
subtle vibration which is making the statuette turn. But it has been on
those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before.
`And why would it go a round in a perfect circle? It would be great
if someone could solve the mystery.'
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* 10-inch tall relic is an offering to Egyptian God Osiris, God of
the dead
* It has been filmed on a time lapse, seemingly spinning 180 degrees
* TV physicist Brian Cox among the experts being consulted on mystery
* But some now believe there could be 'spiritual explanation' for
turning statue
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THE curse of Tutankhamen is said to have claimed more than 20 lives. By
contrast, the curse of Neb-Senu amounts to little more than an
occasional inconvenience for museum curators.
Over several days, the ten-inch Egyptian statuette gradually rotates to
face the rear of the locked glass cabinet in which it is displayed, and
has to be turned around again by hand.
Those who like tales of haunted pyramids and walking mummies may regard
the mystery of the 4,000-year-old relic an offering to Osiris, god
of the dead as the strangest thing to hit Egyptology in decades.
Scroll down for video
[Egyptologist Campbell Price studies an ancient Egyptian statuette at
the Manchester Museum, which appears to be moving on its own]
Egyptologist Campbell Price studies an ancient Egyptian statuette at the
Manchester Museum, which appears to be moving on its own
Others, including TV physicist Professor Brian Cox, have a more
down-to-earth explanation for its movement.
Whatever the solution, the puzzle certainly won't dent visitor
numbers at its present home, Manchester Museum.
The statuette's slow about-turn has been captured on film by a
time-lapse camera, and curator Campbell Price, 29, says he believes
there may be a spiritual explanation.
`I noticed one day that it had turned around,' he said. `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.
Spooky! Egyptian statuette spins untouched inside glass case.
[The 10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, has been at the
museum for 80 years but curators say it has recently starting rotating
180 degrees during the day]
The 10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, has been at the
museum for 80 years but curators say it has recently starting rotating
180 degrees during the day
`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.'
The statue, made by one Neb-Senu in about 1800BC, was donated to the
museum in 1933, and had been reassuringly immobile for most of that
time.
However Mr Price and his colleagues are now used to finding it facing
the rear of its case perhaps significantly, displaying a prayer on
the back requesting `bread, beer, oxen and fowl'.
[Experts decided to monitor the room on time-lapse video and were
astonished to see it clearly show the statuette spinning 180 degrees -
with nobody going near it]
Experts decided to monitor the room on time-lapse video and were
astonished to see it clearly show the statuette spinning 180 degrees -
with nobody going near it
[In this time lapsed video, as the museum closes for the evening, the
statue can be seen in a clearly different position]
In this time lapsed video, as the museum closes for the evening, the
statue can be seen in a clearly different position
[By midday the next day it has turned almost a quarter of a circle to
be facing to the left]
By midday the next day it has turned almost a quarter of a circle to be
facing to the left
[The following morning the statue has moved again, and is facing even
further away from its original position]
The following morning the statue has moved again, and is facing even
further away from its original position
[By the end of the day the statue has turned almost 180 degrees and is
now facing away from visitors to the museum]
By the end of the day the statue has turned almost 180 degrees and is
now facing away from visitors to the museum
Their video has recorded it rotating to its left over the course of
three days until facing backwards.
Even more mysteriously, it appears to spin only during daylight hours,
and does not turn beyond 180 degrees. Some, including Professor Cox,
have suggested that vibrations caused by the footsteps of passing
visitors makes the statuette turn on its glass shelf.
Mr Price said: `Brian thinks it's "differential
friction" where two surfaces, the stone of the statuette and glass
shelf it is on, cause a subtle vibration which is making the statuette
turn. But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has
never moved before.
`And why would it go a round in a perfect circle? It would be great
if someone could solve the mystery.'
