by Researchers have discovered a 4,000 year old handprint for an ancient Egyptian grave that will be released in a museum exhibition in Great Britain in October, reported CBS News Partner BBC News.
The handprint probably dates to 2055 to 1650 BC. Chr., Helen Strudwick, a curator who works at the exhibition, told The News Outlet. Strudwick called the discovery “rarely and exciting,” reported BBC News. Researchers at Cambridge University found it on a side of a “soul house”, a sound model that resembles a building that, according to British Museum, is due to burials in ancient Egypt.
Strudwick, a high -ranking Egypttenologist in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, said that the unusually detailed handprint left behind from everyone who built the ceramic piece before the sound dried.
Helen Strudwick, curator of Made in ancient Egypt, looks at a 4,000 -year -old old Egyptian handprint on one
“We discovered traces of fingerprints in wet paint or on a coffin in the decoration, but it is rare and exciting to find a complete handprint under this soul house,” she said to BBC News and added: “I have never seen such a complete hand print on an Egyptian object.”
The “Soul House” will be exhibited from October 3 in the Fitzwilliam Museum as part of its upcoming exhibition entitled “Made in ancient Egypt”. Relics of ancient Egyptian civilization will focus on various art forms, the people they have made, and the techniques they used to do accordingly concentrate according to the museum.
“Revealing the Untold Stories of the Egyptian Makers, Technology and Techniques Behind THESE INSORY Objects, Our Exciting New Exhibition is the first to explore ancient eGyprow the Lives of Its Craftspeople,” Reads a Description of the Exhibit on the Museum’s website, which notes that that that Display Will Feature Jewelry, Ceramics, Sculptural Pieces and some “Spectacular Objects Never Before Lakes” in the UK
CBS News has contacted the Fitzwilliam Museum to get more information.
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