In a provincial British Museum found a unique ancient Egyptian sarcophagus

Experts at Bristol University have discovered at the exhibition in a museum in Torquay in the English county of Devon a rare Egyptian sarcophagus age of about 3.5 thousand years.
Initially it was thought that the sarcophagus, carved from a single piece of cedar, was made specifically for a boy named Psamtek.
As a result of research conducted in 2006, it was revealed that the boy died about 2,500 years ago, when he was about three or four years. Since then, the mummy Psamteka (the only mummy in a museum ) has become a permanent part of the exhibition, said Lenta. ru.
In 2011, experts from Bristol, found that the sarcophagus of about a thousand years older than Psamteka. According to one version, he could at one time owned by the young member of the royal family, who lived a century before the reign of Tutankhamun. According to the curator of the museum Torkiyskogo so rare there is not even a sarcophagus in the British Museum collection.
The sarcophagus was given to the museum Psamteka Torquay in 1956, Lady Vinarettoy Leeds, which is believed to be bought it along with the mummy Psamteka during one of his trips to Egypt in 1920.