In a meticulously planned operation that took five months to organize, a pair of 2,000-year-old coffin lids from Egypt was transferred from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to undergo a CT scan on Friday.
Part of the museum’s Egyptian collection, these intricate coffin lids carved from sycamore wood were subjected to an examination at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in order to unravel the techniques employed by craftsmen during their creation.
