A significant relic was found on an archeological dig conducted by the Brooklyn Museum in Egypt. Here’s an excerpt from the report by the Brooklyn Museum of Art:

In late January, the
Brooklyn Museum’s archaeological expedition to the
Temple Precinct of the Goddess Mut at South Karnak
discovered a relief—a decorated painted and gilded
lintel that once crowned the doorway of a religious
structure. The decoration of this object was
sufficiently unusual that local Luxor officials of
the Supreme Council of Antiquities sent photographs
to the main office in Cairo.

On February 1, Farok Hosni, Egypt’s Minister of
Culture, announced the discovery of the lintel as a
significant find. That day the lintel was
transported to the Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian
Art, where it will receive its final cleaning and
conservation and be placed on display.

Archaeologist Richard Fazzini, who has run the
excavation for the Museum since its inception,
comments, “Some of the significance of the lintel is
the quality of its carving and its gilding. A small
number of ancient Egyptian reliefs were gilded, but
that adornment has seldom survived. Equally
important is the unusual nature of its iconography,
which has its origins in the early first millennium
B.C. but which is here dated to the Ptolemaic Period
or early Roman Period (late fourth to late first
century B.C.) by the inscriptions.” READ MORE AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM