Mystery solved! Spinning Egyptian statue is not cursed!

For a few months now, a small statue in the Egyptian exhibit of the Manchester Museum has been seen to turn around in its case, apparently all on its own. The case is sealed, with only one curator having the key, so it's been a mystery, but now that mystery has been solved.

According to The Independent, Steve Gosling, from the television show Mystery Map, set up vibration detectors around the statue of Neb-Senu, and synced up the timeline from them to the timeline of the video monitoring the statue. The results, which he discusses in the video below, give conclusive evidence for what's going on:

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Of course, although there were some that might have brought up the idea that it was an ancient curse, this isn't the first suggestion that the statue was moving due to mundane circumstances. Prof. Brian Cox suggested that it was due to vibrations when the story first came out, and I'm sure there were many others that did as well. This was just an experiment to confirm it, showing off the scientific method quite well. We had our question, along with our hypotheses and predictions, to start, and now we have our testing and analysis.

Would the Egyptian curse have been a better result? Probably not, since it would have probably gotten rather messy, and besides, it's still cool that all the vibrations from around the area are adding up to cause the statue to turn in place.

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