Petrie found this burial in 1908 in Thebes. The artefacts came to Scotland in 1909; a queen and a child, presumably her own. The symbols on the unidentified coffin stop at the point where the person’s name would be given, due to erosion of the plaster dating from thousands of years ago.
Dr. Bill Manley from National Museum of Scotland believes that, thanks to work with a range of other experts, he has discovered the likely identity of the woman. By looking at the shape of the coffin and studying the grave gifts academics have been able to date the burial to around 1550BC. A visit to Egypt in 2003 allowed Manley to use Petrie’s notes and maps to help pinpoint the location of the burial site further, but he failed to find the actual spot. Manley says:
If in the last 18 months you’ve passed by the Royal Museum of Scotland on Edinburgh’s Chambers Street – the grand glass-roofed, Neo-Romanesque Victorian building adjoining the contemporary sandstone structure of the National Museum of Scotland – you’ll have noticed that the place is a great big building site at the moment. That’s because it’s currently subject to the Royal Museum Project (RMP) – a massive £46-million-pound face-lift that by 2011 will see it reopened, bigger, better, ultra-modern and among Britain and the world’s top museum facilities.
The Royal Museum of Scotland is a large, glass-roofed Neo-Romanesque museum in the old town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was opened in 1888, and in 2007 merged with the adjoining Museum of Scotland to become the National Museum of Scotland complex. Since 2008, it has been closed, subject to the completion of the Royal Museum Project - a £46 million pound refit, funded jointly by the Scottish Government, the Heritage Lottery Fund and private donations. The museum is expected to reopen in 2011.
It's exhibits - numbering over a million - derive from the fields of geology, archaeology, natural history, science, technology and art. Highlights range from stuffed African elephants to the Millenium Clock, a whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling, thousands of insects and various ancient Egyptian items, including engraved coffins. It was a state-of-the-art facility when first opened, but has since fallen behind the pace and come to urgently require a major refurbishment.
The 12th century Lewis Chessmen are one of Britain’s finest and most valuable heritage treasures. They represent the largest single surviving collection of objects made purely for the purposes of recreation in the medieval period, at a time when chess was becoming hugely popular among the aristocracy. They may also be some of the only medieval chess sets still in existence today.
A school in Edinburgh, Scotland, has developed an innovative alternative to the rigmarole of loading kids onto a bus for a visit to the museum – bringing the museum to the kids. Developed with £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund, the Living Links Museum at South Queensferry’s Echline Primary School will represent the only in-school museum of its kind in Scotland, and feature displays relating to the Vikings and the ancient Egyptians and Africans.
Taking place over two days in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park, The Gathering 2009 is the centrepiece event of the Year of Homecoming - Scotland's national celebration marking 250 years since the birth of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns. It will feature the largest gathering of clan members in history,and the largest Highland Games ever staged.
Additionally, there will be Scottish food and drink stalls, performances of Scottish traditional music and dancing, a Scottish geneaology area, and various other family events and activities. The event will commence on the Saturday, with a parade of clan members and other event particpants down Edinburgh's Royal Mile, dressed in full Scottish regalia.
Scotland really is about much so more than burly men in skirts, doing rugged things like hurling bits of wood around on a bellyful of haggis, neeps, tatties and whiskey, to the sound of bagpipes. But you could be forgiven for believing it, when the Scottish Government, as part of the Year of Homecoming, is bankrolling such international showpiece events as The Gathering – the largest meeting of clans in Scottish history, and the biggest Highland Games ever held.
The Museum of Scotland, alongside the adjacent Royal Museum, comprises the National Museum of Scotland in the capital city Edinburgh. The museum incorporates collections from the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, and is dedicated to the history, ethnography and culture of Scotland. Many important relics from the country's past are on display at the museum, such as the Monymusk Reliquary, a Union Flag and Scottish Flag raised at the Battle of Culloden, as well as paintings and sculptures by famous Scots artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Margaret MacDonald and Andrew Goldsworthy. However possibly the museum's most famous pieces are ten of the Lewis Chessmen; ivory figurines, probably Nordic in origin, from the 12th century.
Scotland really is about much so more than burly men in skirts, doing rugged things like hurling bits of wood around on a bellyful of haggis, neeps, tatties and whiskey, to the sound of bagpipes. But you could be forgiven for believing it, when the 
