Watch time-lapse video of 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue moving on its own

This could be the cue for Dan Brown’s next novel. Or Hollywood’s next blockbuster. Or make the Manchester Museum more famous than the Louvre.
For the moment though a 10-inch Egyptian statuette at the Manchester Museum in the UK has archaeologists, museum directors, Egyptologists and most of YouTube mesmerised.

The 4,000-year-old relic – an offering to Osiris, god of the dead – is believed to move on its own, gradually rotating to face the rear end of the glass cabinet in which it is displayed.
This happens during the day and the statue has to be turned around again by hand.

The statuette’s slow about-turn has been captured on film by a time-lapse camera, and curator Campbell Price who is leaning towards a spiritual explanation.

The relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, has been at the museum for 80 years. The 10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, has been at the museum for 80 years but curators say it has recently starting rotating 180 degrees during the day

The statue, made by one Neb-Senu in about 1800BC, was donated to the museum in 1933.

Professor Brian Cox, quoted by the Daily Mail, has suggested that vibrations caused by the footsteps of passing visitors makes the statuette turn on its glass shelf.