They haven't figured out why, but one clue is the hieroglyphics on the back. They say: "bread, beer and beef."
ADDED: More here. The inscription is: "An offering which the king gives to Osiris, Lord of Life, that he may give a voice offering, consisting of bread, beer, oxen and fowl for the Ka-spirit of."
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Viral marketing for the new British version of "Night at the Museum" with Ricky Gervais instead of Ben Stiller as the lead actor.
Actually the hieroglyphics say
"Shit or get off the pot" After 2500 years she got off.
If it's not a hoax using stop action photography then another good guess is some sort of localized vibration. When our washing machine gets a little out of balance things on top of it "walk" all over the place.
Maybe some kind of magnetism?
Twilight Zone is back.
It may be coming through the Heaven's Gate of the Egyptian god in question.
The Pharaoh whose job was being High Priest of Egypt's gods had it all until the day hen Moses came back to town with the power of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in his rod.
...not to mention Demille.
Vibrations on the floor when people are walking about transferred to the shelving. Surface tension and the adhesion...or lack of....of the material of the statue and the glass surface that they have it on. Probably enhanced by the glass cleaner that creates a molecular buffer between the glass shelving and the base of the statue.
Buzz kill.....I know.
DBQ, I think you got it. It only happens during the day when activity is present. Some vibration that is coordinated with the day like traffic outside, people inside, or maybe an air conditioner or heating unit that only runs during the day.
Or Thor's mighty hammer.
This is an etude, a formula that is taught in Egyptian 101. You will recognize it instantly by the time you finish this entry level book. Available through the A-A portal for anyone interested, and who wouldn't be? I have drawn it until my hand cramped.
But that's not exaggerating, my hand cramps easily.
You will also see it in Collier's beginning books, and in Gardner's beginning book.
It's good to do ALL the beginning books innit just for fun and to ensure a good solid beginning.
Wikipidea shows the voice offering formula. And I show it too about six times on my hieroglyphic finder. Would you like to see one? Of course you would. But these are royal offerings, you don't just go around painting on tomb walls and chiseling formulas in stone unless there is big money involved so the formulas state precisely how much beer bread fowl and ox, usually in the thousands.
And quit saying how crap my Egyptian handwriting is, when you draw them 1,000 times you finally just scribble them. But I think I do better than Wikipedia, don't you?
Maybe it was a statue of Isis.
(Ignore the ad.)
Here's another one. They're all over the place. At the end you can see the little pictures of bread wine beer ox fowl although alabaster and linen, the ligature at the end, are not so intuitive.
He just wants to be a playa.
It means Obama's finished. The same Obama that thinks he's Akhenaten.
Maybe it's related to the Weeping Angels from "Doctor Who."
It's the shadow...
It's sick of hearing about the Kardashians.
How far is it to Cairo?
It's center of mass is toward the back of the statue. I'm willing to bet that there is a gap between the front of the statue and the glass making the back the pivot point.
Yes DBQ it is either vibrations or the the uneven heating of the glass by the lights. Since the glass is constrained on all sides, when it expands it bows in the middle.
Nothing eerie here. Just physics.
'Warm beer and bread, it's said, can raise the dead."
I think Jimmy Buffett already solved this mystery.
Neb-Senu is just looking for a Cheeseburger in Paradise.
"Celebrity scientist Brian Cox thinks the movement is caused by “differential friction” and a slight vibration, but the curator says the statue had been on the same surfaces long before without turning."
I've liked him on QI.
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