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The mystery behind three unique objects that have been excavated from the Great Pyramid of Giza

2024-11-28 20:49:18Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The mystery behind three unique objects that have been excavated from the Great
The Great Pyramid of Giza

There are only three objects that have been excavated from the Great Pyramid of Giza and they remain a mystery to this day.

Pharaoh Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, built the pyramid, which is the oldest of the seven wonders of the world. Most of the pyramid is still intact. However, there is much we still don't know about this pyramid, especially why only three objects have been excavated from it.

This has surprised scientists because of the great size of the pyramid. To be precise, the pyramid is 146 meters high, and its base about 230 square meters. When historians eagerly rushed to explore what was inside, they surely expected to discover artifacts and historical artifacts.

However, archaeologists and others have yet to find anything but three specific mysterious objects. The objects were first discovered in 1872 in the Queen's Chamber by 19th-century British explorer Waynman Dixon. And they have continued to baffle experts to this day.

Dixon found a stone ball, a copper hook-shaped object, and a fragment or stick of wood – these objects soon became known as Dixon's relics.

The mystery behind three unique objects that have been excavated from the Great

The ball and hook were donated to the British Museum, while the location of the wooden fragment has been unknown for decades.

According to the University of Aberdeen, it was donated to the university's museum in 1946 after the death of James Grant – a doctor who befriended Dixon during his research on the pyramid.

However, the wooden fragment was never classified and could not be found for more than 70 years, until assistant curator Abeer Eladany sought items from another university collection in 2019.

The mystery behind three unique objects that have been excavated from the Great

But what were the objects doing in the pyramid?

When Dixon first discovered them, the British newspaper The Graphic reported in December 1872, as quoted by the University of Aberdeen, that the objects were probably "of the weights and measures used by the builders of the pyramids".

"The position in which they were left shows that they must have been left while the work was still in progress, and at an early stage of construction," the newspaper wrote at the time.

However, others believe the objects were "deliberately left behind, as happened later in the New Kingdom, when pharaohs tried to emphasize continuity with the past by burying antiquities with them," explained Neil Curtis, head of museums and special collections at University of Aberdeen.

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