| Object History Note | Left in ventilating shaft of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Queen's Chamber. Letter dated 18/8/46 from donor (E.F. Morrice) prior to donation: "Stone mason's rule, left in ventilation shaft of great pyramid of Cheops 400 B.C., in the Queen's Chamber & discovered by Dr. Grant Bey & Weyman Dixon in 1886 approx. This rule fell to fragments on being exposed to the air". |