Archaeologists Found a 4,000-Year-Old Handprint That Was Never Meant to Be Seen

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In ancient Egypt, artisans have long lived in the shadows of the Pharaohs and elites they served. Undocumented, their actions, though essential, have traversed the millennia without visible traces of their passage. It is this silence that is being broken today by an unexpected discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. During the preparation of an exhibition dedicated to the makers of ancient objects, researchers affiliated with the Unive…

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A 4,000-year-old human handprint was discovered in an ancient Egyptian grave item at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England.

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Around 4000 years ago, many Egyptians decorated the graves of their deceased with houses of souls – mini houses made of clay. On the bottom of one of these houses, researchers in the UK have now discovered a handprint. It was probably created when the potter brought his still moist work to dry. The well-preserved handprint provides a rare insight into the [...] Der Beitrag A 4000-year-old handprint on a house of souls first appeared on wissensch…