Researcher Discovers Ancient Artifacts in Plain Sight http://bit.ly/20YwZql
Researchers – amateur and professional alike – dream of discovery, of finding an object and recognizing it for what it is when others haven’t. A researcher with the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, Luther Sousa, did just that when he identified two small objects he found in the University’s collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts (the A.E. Hetherington Collection) that once belonged to Queen Hatshepsut, one of the first female Egyptian pharaohs who ruled in the Eighteenth Dynasty.
As it turns out (for the right person) the connection to the Egyptian Queen wasn’t hard to make; the hieroglyphs representing her name were there on the newly identified items, a miniature hoe approximately 30 cm long and a miniature rocker around 15 cm long. Their significance was only recently discovered because Sousa had studied at the American university in Cairo. He told CBC news in Canada, “No one had the expertise or the know-how of the objects or were aware these objects were there,” he said. “Someone like me who just is really into Egyptology and who studied Egyptology finally [took] the time to have a look at it. I think it’s just a matter of luck and time.”
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