For several decades, two mysterious Egyptian mummies were kept among the treasures in the storage unit of the Haifa Museums. Small in size – about 40 centimeters long - very little was known about them, except that they were donated to the museum about 60 years ago, and they dated back to a period between 3,000 and 2,500 years ago. On Monday, the mummies were brought to the Rambam Health Care Campus for a CT scan, which allowed both the museum’s and the hospital’s staff who poured to the room to travel back in time unveiling the content of the sarcophagi.
“We wanted to understand more about the mummies and we decided to reach out to Rambam,” Haifa Museums General Director Yotam Yakir told The Jerusalem Post. “In spite of the coronavirus emergency, they responded incredibly quickly. The hospital is a very short distance from our museum, so yesterday we carefully transported them there.”
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