The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge recently restored a 3,000-year old mummy case using Lego frames. The sarcophagus is now restored to its former glory, complete with an internal Lego support system.

A 3,000-year-old mummy case has been restored to its former glory thanks to the help of Lego building blocks. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge sought to repair the 13th century Egyptian king ...

After 3,000 years, the case that had held the mummy of Hor, a vizier’s son who died in tenth-century B.C. Thebes, was in a slump. It had succumbed to years of storage in moist conditions in the ...

An Egyptian mummy case stored in a museum basement for about 50 years has been restored with the help of Lego. Cambridge University engineering student David Knowles, 22, used the components to ...

Staff at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge have restored a 3000 year old Egyptian Mummy using LEGO. Small lightweight 'jacks' built from the child's toy were used to carefully repair the paper ...

AN Egyptian mummy crumbling at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum has been saved by a skeleton of Lego toy building blocks. AN Egyptian mummy crumbling at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum has been ...

Staff at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge have restored a 3000-year-old Egyptian Mummy with the help of LEGO pieces. Small lightweight 'jacks' built from the children's toy were used to ...

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