NewsUri’s seeking Egyptian treasure on his Scots isle
Equipped with survival gear, the mystic spoon-bender landed for the first time on the private island of Lamb for an overnight stay that will involve a search for the missing Egyptian treasure he believes could be hidden there. Geller bought the barren outcrop on the Firth of Forth last year for £30,000. In a plot every bit as fantastical as the man himself, Uri said the desolate island, just off North Berwick, could hold riches belonging to the Egyptian Princess Scota who — as legend has it — was exiled to Scotland during a time of great uprising 3500 years ago. Legend According to legend her royal barge is said to have anchored at Lamb Island on her arrival in Scotland. Uri believes she may have instructed her soldiers to hide precious jewellery there. And true to form, Israeli-born Uri, who was accompanied on the overnight trip by ‘Island Man’ Andy Strangeway, who holds a record for sleeping on every Scottish island, shunned high-tech methods of treasure detection and opted for a pendulum and dowsing rods. But before setting sail, Uri explained to a captivated audience during a guest appearance in the Sea Bird Centre in North Berwick that his psychic hunch was based on an ancient Scottish chronicle. “I decided to buy the island after learning its mysterious heritage dated back to the Pharaohs. Pyramids “Indeed, the Lamb is one of three outcrops in the Firth of Forth whose geography exactly mirrors the layout of the Great Pyramids at Giza, leading some investigators to speculate that there are secret links between them.” He also said that he became interested in the Lamb when Mohammed Al Fayed re-published the Abbot of Inchcolm, Walter Bower’s, 15th Century Scotichronicon last year, described by the National Library of Scotland as “probably the most important mediaeval account of early Scottish history”. Uri added, “My dowser’s instinct tells me there could be ancient and hidden treasure here. “Robert Louis Stevenson, who played in North Berwick as a child, penned Treasure Island as an adult. Perhaps he sensed there was something here too!” |
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Euan Duguid
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