Ancient Mummy Found In Cork 1903

A 2,300 year old mummy was discovered hidden under floorboards at the Cork university in 1903. 

However, they are adamant that the mummy -- hidden for years under floorboards in University College Cork (UCC) -- is the property of the Egyptian state and should be returned if it is suitable for shipment.

The mummy could become one of the centrepieces of a multi-million euro new museum to be opened within sight of the Giza pyramids and the Sphinx.

Egyptian officials are set to offer UCC the prospect of the mummy being loaned back at a future date and the inclusion of UCC on world tours of famous Egyptian artefacts.

However, prospects for a deal over the mysterious mummy have been thrown into turmoil after the recent revolution in Egypt, the retirement of one of Cairo's top Egyptologists and ongoing confusion over precisely how the mummy arrived at UCC.

The mummy was discovered at the college in 1903 and experts now believe the mummy and the sarcophagus in which it is kept, are from different eras.

The mummy is that of an adult male who lived around 300BC, but the coffin dates to between 600BC and 700BC. 

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Was this Scottish Cave Actually a Druid Temple?

The mystery of the Gilmerton Cove, in Edinburgh, Scotland, has long perplexed historians, who theorized that it could have been any number of things: A secret drinking den for the upper class, a refuge for the religiously persecuted, a lair for smugglers, or even something to do with the Knights Templar. 

The caves were discovered beneath a local blacksmith's former shop, and records indicate that the blacksmith, identified as George Paterson, built the caves in 1724. 

But a Scottish historian and former museum director in Glasgow thinks that's hogwash. 

The tunnels, Julian Spalding postulates, had been built prior to Paterson and then filled in by its original builders. Paterson merely dug it out, uncovering a network of caves that was thousands of years old. 

“It is very probable that the whole complex was deliberately buried, a widespread ancient practice which prevented the subsequent defilement of sacred sites," Spalding tells The Scotsman. "This interpretation explains why two passages are still blocked by unexcavated rubble."

And the identities of the people behind the tunnels? Maybe Iron Age-era druids!

“Druids were known to meet in secret in woods and caves away from habitation," Spalding says. 

Little is known about druids, an educated class of Celtic people said to have lived over two millennia ago. No archaeological evidence has ever been definitively tied to them. 

If proven, Spalding says, the Gilmerton Cove would be the first.
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Who were the Druids

Very little is known about the ancient druids. They left no written accounts of themselves, and the only evidence is a few descriptions left by Greek, Roman, and various scattered authors and artists, as well as stories created later by medieval Irish writers.

The word “Druid” derives from the Latin “druidae” and from from Gaulish “druides”. It is also thought to stem from a Celtic compound of “dru-wid” – “dru” (tree) and “wid” (to know). The Old Irish form was “drui”, and in Modern Irish and Gaelic the word is “draoi” or “druadh” (magician or sorcerer). click to read more

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