{"id":101222,"date":"2023-11-25T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=101222"},"modified":"2023-11-25T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T14:44:31","slug":"how-schoolboy-stumbled-upon-ancient-egyptian-artefacts-in-fife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/how-schoolboy-stumbled-upon-ancient-egyptian-artefacts-in-fife\/","title":{"rendered":"How schoolboy stumbled upon ancient Egyptian artefacts in Fife"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How a Scottish schoolboy stumbled upon a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian artefacts in Fife after being ordered to dig up potatoes as a punishment<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>A 4,000-year-old Egyptian relic was uncovered in 1952 by a schoolboy in Fife<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is the kind of thing you might expect to find beneath the shifting sands of the Old Kingdom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, this 4,000-year-old Egyptian relic was uncovered in 1952 by a Scots schoolboy in a &#8216;kingdom&#8217; far closer to home \u2013 Fife.<\/p>\n<p>Ordered to dig up potatoes as a punishment at Dalhousie School, in the grounds of Melville House, near Collessie, he stumbled across a bulbous form. He initially mistook it for a spud \u2013 but it turned out to be the first of 18 antiquities unearthed there over the next 30 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/01\/78004293-12769103-Following_the_discovery_of_an_ancient_Egyptian_artefact_by_a_Sco-a-65_1700443246543.jpg\" height=\"482\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Following the discovery of an ancient Egyptian artefact by a Scottish schoolboy in Fife, a further seventeen were uncovered over the next thirty years<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/01\/78004297-12769103-National_Museums_Scotland_is_telling_the_stories_behind_the_trea-a-67_1700443253045.jpg\" height=\"1090\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>National Museums Scotland is telling the stories behind the treasures for the first time<\/p>\n<p>Now Edinburgh-based National Museums Scotland is telling the stories behind the treasures for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One idea is that they belonged to a Melville family member who died a year after touring Egypt in 1856. 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