The curse of the Pharaoh?.
A 4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian statue has puzzled curators at Manchester museum after the relic started to mysteriously spin 180 degrees on its own.
The 10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, was found in a mummy's tomb and has spent 80 years at the Manchester Museum.
The statue, named Neb-Senu is an offering to the Egyptian God Osiris, God of the dead.
The Egyptian God Osiris
However, in recent weeks, curators were spooked after they kept finding the statue facing the wrong way. 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
The statue is seen to remain still at night but slowly rotate round during the day, 'Manchester Evening News' reported.
Scientists who explored the Egyptian tombs in the 1920s were popularly believed to be struck by a 'curse of the Pharaohs'.
Campbell Price, a curator at the museum on Oxford Road, believes there may be a spiritual explanation to the spinning statue.
"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” said Price.
In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. indiatimes
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Ancient Egyptian statue has started MOVING sparking fears it has been struck by 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
It sounds like the something from the script of a Hollywood action adventure.
But the 'mystery of the moving mummy' - which has seen an Egyptian statue mysteriously start to spin round in a display case - has spooked museum bosses.
The 10-inch tall relic, an offering to the Egyptian God Osiris, was found in a mummy's tomb and has been at the Manchester Museum for 80 years.
But in recent weeks, curators have been left scratching their heads after they kept finding it facing the wrong way. They now believe there could be a 'spiritual explanation' for the turning statue.
Egyptologist Campbell Price studies an ancient Egyptian statuette at the Manchester Museum, which appears to be moving on its own
It is believed that there is a curse of the pharaohs which strikes anyone who dares to take relics from a pyramid tomb.
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.
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The statue of a man named Neb-Senu is seen to remain still at night but slowly rotate round during the day.
Now scientists are trying to explain the phenomenon, with TV physicist Brian Cox among the experts being consulted.
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
Scientists who explored the Egyptian tombs in the 1920s were popularly believed to be struck by a 'curse of the Pharaohs'.
Now Campbell Price, a curator at the museum on Oxford Road, said he believes there may be a spiritual explanation to the spinning statue.
Egyptologist Mr Price, 29, said: '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.
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
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
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