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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Helen Strudwick, curator of Made in Ancient Egypt, views a 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian handprint discovered on a “soul house” at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (Joe Giddens/PA) A handprint ...