egyptian mystery fossils

[Adrienne Mayor <afmayor@aol.com>]

Thanks to all who responded to the request for help in indentifying  
the fossil from the temple of Set in Egypt, at the Bolton Museum, UK.
There is a tentative ID (hippo navicular), full report to come.

The curators from the Bolton Museum are investigating the possibility  
of access to the crates of fossils collected by Sir Flinders Petrie  
and Brunton from two ancient Egyptian shrines. The crates, shipped in  
the 1920s, have been languishing unopened in the warehouse of the  
Natural History Museum in London for 80-some years.