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They cautiously held the artifact in their hands. Now the wait was making them impatient so they thought of the ways to start their work. Margaret too was extra careful but she couldn’t just rely solely on what was written in the envelope. They started to analyze the inside fabric very diligently and searched the storage facility area for more clues that might have gone undiscovered by the team.
Unwrapping The Mystery
They knew it from the beginning, it wasn’t going to be easy but they wouldn’t have imagined that it would deprive them of their sleep and appetite too. They started to take off the cover with painstaking precision. Gradually they figured out that it was an ancient textile that rested inside the massive cover. Would they be able to take it out without causing any damage?
“Curator’s Dream”
They started to unfold the fabric, the ancient textile that was described as the “curators dream” took almost 24 hours to unwrap and dry off. But what they saw after the fabric had dried, faded the grueling memory of the last night. Once it lay bared in front of the archeologists, they saw “tantalizing glimpses of colorful painted details,” as said by one of the curators afterward in an interview. What was the object that was shining so brightly nearly blinding everyone in the room?
The Blinding Fabric
The fabric that had been just discovered from the massive covering was an ancient shroud. It was used to cover the dead body and hence was also called a burial shroud. Fortunately, it was in a good form protected from the course of the time even as it seemed that it had been buried in the parcel for ages. But they were in no mood to cease their findings only at unwrapping the gorgeous shroud. All they could think of the history behind the shroud after its miraculous discovery.
Shrouds
Back in the Egyptian time, the shrouds were basically used at the time of burial for mummification of the dead body. Their importance emerged particularly during the Roman period as the use of the coffins had decreased in those years.Dr. Maitland was questioned about why she had found the shroud to be unusual and she answered it through an email.
Remarkable Discovery
They were awestruck with the discovery and considered it to be groundbreaking, their eyes sparkled with joy. Later in an interview, Dr. Maitland admitted, “None of us could have imagined the remarkable figure that would greet us when we were finally able to unroll it,”.Without wasting more time they started to think of the ways to uncover the truths that lay in the depth of the finding.