Ancient Egyptian treasures presented by experts for the first time

The first of many amazing discoveries made at Melville House in Fife between 1952 and 1984 is being fully presented for the first time by experts at National Museums Scotland.

A Scottish child who was assigned to dig potatoes as a form of punishment at a private school discovered a mystery ancient Egyptian treasure.

Experts at National Museums Scotland are presenting the first in a series of astounding findings made at Melville House in Fife between 1952 and 1984 in full for the first time.

The discovery started when the house's kid, who was attending the prestigious Dalhousie Castle School at the time, dug up and struck a red sandstone statue head from the mid-12th Dynasty that he initially thought was a potato.

Before another item was found in 1984 by a group using a metal detector, fourteen years later, a boy unearthed another treasure during a physical education lesson. 18 artifacts in total have been found; the majority of which are currently housed in the collection of National Museums Scotland.

Following the initial finding, a youngster participating in a PE class vaulting exercise landed on an Egyptian bronze votive statuette of an Apis bull that was sticking out of the ground in 1966, leading to the discovery of the statuette in the grounds. The youngster, who had discovered the sandstone head in 1952, grew up to be the supervising instructor and brought the artifact into the museum to be identified.