A priceless relic depicting the Egyptian god Osiris was found in a tomb next to a mummy and is on display in a museum in the British city of Manchester. The statuette impressed the museum management and the involved scientists with its wayward behavior.
In a closed rack, she slowly turns 180 degrees, as if Osiris wants to look around. The statue describes a perfect full circle in three days. Physicists could not explain this rotation by a natural cause and hinted at a spiritual, spiritualistic one. Scientists do not exclude that the artifact was struck by the "curse of the pharaohs."
According to the 29-year-old museum curator Price Campbell, the explanation for this phenomenon should be sought in the magical power of this figurine.
“I noticed that one day he turned away. It seemed very strange to me, because only I have the key. I turned him back, but the next day I found that he "turned away" again. In Ancient Egypt, it was believed that if the mummy collapses, then the figurine can act as an alternative vessel for the soul. Maybe that's why she's moving,”says Price.
Scientists less fantasized, including physics professor Brian Cox, have a more down-to-earth explanation for this phenomenon. He suggested that the vibrations caused by the passage of visitors through the hall caused the figurine to rotate on the glass shelf. Price refutes this theory, stating that the figurine has always stood on a glass shelf, but only recently began to rotate.