Ancient Egyptian God of death statue starts SPINNING on its own in Manchester museum...

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The turn of the mummy: God of death statue starts SPINNING on its own in Manchester museum... but is this a sign that there really is a curse of the Pharaohs?

• 10-inch tall relic is an offering to Egyptian God Osiris, God of the dead
• It has been filmed on a time lapse, seemingly spinning 180 degrees
• TV physicist Brian Cox among the experts being consulted on mystery
• But some now believe there could be 'spiritual explanation' for turning statue

By David Wilkes
PUBLISHED: 08:10 GMT, 23 June 2013 | UPDATED: 10:52 GMT, 24 June 2013

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.
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Egyptologist Campbell Price studies an ancient Egyptian statuette at the Manchester Museum, which appears to be moving on its own

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.

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