These Ancient Egyptian Finds Are So Unusual Experts Thought They Were Fakes

We're guessing most Egyptologists had never heard of Kluczkowice, but the discovery of several ancient Egyptian figurines has thrust the Polish village unexpectedly into the spotlight. The statues were found during unrelated excavations in the town near Lublin in southeast Poland, and depict Osiris, Egyptian god of the dead and the afterlife; and Bacchus, the Roman god of winemaking, fertility, insanity and fruit. The finds were so unusual that there were obvious questions around authenticity, but analysis by the National Museum in Lublin and the University of Warsaw determined that the statues were in fact real.

These Ancient Egyptian Finds Are So Unusual Experts Thought They Were Fakes