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3,000-year-old fingerprints on Egyptian coffin to go on display
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleResearchers at a UK museum say they have found 3,000-year-old fingerprints left on an Egyptian coffin.
The fingerprints were apparently left by a craftsman who accidentally touched the lid before the varnish dried, an Egyptologist at the Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum tells CNN.
The prints were first discovered in 2005 and have since been studied to teach researchers more about the crafting of coffins in ancient Egypt.
The coffin, belonging to a priest from Thebes, is to go on display on Tuesday as part of a new exhibit exploring how coffins were made.
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