4,000-year-old handprint found on Egyptian clay model

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2025-07-28

London (PA Media/dpa) - A handprint left 4,000 years ago on a clay model crafted to go inside an Egyptian tomb has been discovered during preparation for an exhibition at a museum. The "rare and exciting" complete handprint was probably made by the maker of the item who touched it before the clay dried, an Egyptologist at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum said. The imprint was left on the base of a "soul house" - a clay model in the shape of a build......

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