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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Pharaohs.html
    THE curse of Tutankhamen is said to have claimed more than 20 lives. By contrast, the curse of Neb-Senu amounts to little more than an occasional inconvenience for museum curators.

    Over several days, the ten-inch Egyptian statuette gradually rotates to face the rear of the locked glass cabinet in which it is displayed, and has to be turned around again by hand.

    Those who like tales of haunted pyramids and walking mummies may regard the mystery of the 4,000-year-old relic – an offering to Osiris, god of the dead – as the strangest thing to hit Egyptology in decades.

    Others, including TV physicist Professor Brian Cox, have a more down-to-earth explanation for its movement.

    Whatever the solution, the puzzle certainly won’t dent visitor numbers at its present home, Manchester Museum.

    The statuette’s slow about-turn has been captured on film by a time-lapse camera, and curator Campbell Price, 29, says he believes there may be a spiritual explanation.

    ‘I noticed one day that it had turned around,’ he said. ‘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.


    Watch the video to see it spin


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    Vibrations...

    Notice it only turns when people are moving in the room. I would inspect the base of the statue.

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    if you watch the video, it only happens during the day, so the foot vibration theory the physicist proposes is totally plausible.

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    Vibrations...

    Notice it only turns when people are moving in the room. I would inspect the base of the statue.
    Well WC, you solved the mystery of the online dating chick........errrr.....the mystery of the Manchester Museum.

    Just think of all the things you've figured out from your computer....it's amazing that you spend your free time from being a detective moonlighting as a ing idiot on the internet.

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    Well WC, you solved the mystery of the online dating chick........errrr.....the mystery of the Manchester Museum.

    Just think of all the things you've figured out from your computer....it's amazing that you spend your free time from being a detective moonlighting as a ing idiot on the internet.

    it talks about vibrations in the article. he didn't figure it out on his own nor did he claim to tbh.

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    it talks about vibrations in the article. he didn't figure it out on his own nor did he claim to tbh.
    Based on the phrasing of his post as well as all the other BS "I know everything" that he's ever posted on this site....he claimed it....I promise.

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    Vibrations...

    Notice it only turns when people are moving in the room. I would inspect the base of the statue.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-25005916

    "There's a lump at the bottom which makes it more susceptible to vibrations than the others which have a flat base," Mr Gosling added


    solved. it was vibrations.

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    spinning as like buss spinning in his grave after 128m roster?

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    ok yeah i guess WC declared the idea as his own. congrats einstein.

    from OP

    "Mr Price said: ‘Brian thinks it’s “differential friction” where two surfaces, the stone of the statuette and glass shelf it is on, cause a subtle vibration which is making the statuette turn. But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before.

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