2023-05-22 22:00:36
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities issued a statement regarding reports that pharaonic coffins were sent to Israel and examined in an Israeli hospital in Jerusalem.
And the Israeli media had said that two pharaonic coffins were transferred, on Sunday, from the Israel Museum to the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem for a computed tomography examination..
She described the process of moving the covers of the coffins as complex, as it took several months to organize, noting that the process was organized by the curator of Egyptian antiquities, Nir Or Lev, and the staff of the restoration laboratories at the Israel Museum.
According to reports, the cover of one of the coffins belongs to a ritual singer of the god Amun-Ra, called Jed Mut in the year 950 BC, while the second belongs to an Egyptian nobleman who lived between the seventh and fourth centuries BC.
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