Is Egypt Transferer Pharaonic coffins to Israel for examination?

Moamen Othman, head of the museums sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, denied transferring pharaonic coffin covers from an Egyptian museum to Israel for a CT scan in a hospital there.

He stressed that this is not true, and that no artifacts were taken out of Egypt for examination or study.

It had been reported that coffin covers that were more than thousands of years old had been transported for a CT scan in At Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem

The news claimed that the coffin covers were examined in order to identify the processes that craftsmen carried out while making the covers thousands of years ago.

Bronze statues

In related context, Polish archaeologists have confirmed that bronze statues of the Egyptian and Roman gods Osiris and Bacchus discovered in eastern Poland last year, which were initially thought to date from the 19th century, date back to ancient Egypt and Rome. 

The preservationist of the heritage in the Polish province of Lublin confirmed that the first statue embodies Osiris from the first millennium BC, while the statue of Bacchus dates back to the first century AD.

The finds were found in May 2022 in the grounds of a palatial home belonging to the Polish Kielnowski family, and this led to initial speculation that they had been part of their interior decoration since the house was built in the 19th century.

However the unprecedented nature of the find means that there have always been doubts about this theory and now experts from the National Museum in Lublin and the University of Warsaw's Department of Archeology have confirmed that the pieces are in fact originals from antiquity.

In May 2022 Krzysztof Kozowski led the search for the antiquities and reported finding two bronze statues which he identified as "Pharaoh" and "Goddess", and the pieces were handed over to the Antiquities Protection Office in Lublin for verification.

Ancient collection

The personnel of the Archaeological Inspection Department have examined the exact location of the site. It turns out that the statues depict the figure of Osiris in Egyptian mythology, the god of death and rebirth, and the supreme judge of the dead, and the statue of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and wine, fertility, and wildlife.

It turns out that these antiquities are part of the ancient collection of the Klinivsky family and that it may have been purchased for the collection by Maria Klinivski during her stay in Egypt in 1904.