The focus of this exhibition is a 2,200-year-old Egyptian mummy displayed in its original coffin, alongside objects from various tombs typically used in Egyptian funerary rites until the rise of Christianity in Egypt in the fourth century CE. The mummy, the only one in Israel, was given to the Jerusalem Pontifical Biblical Institute in around 1930 in honor of its inauguration … [Read more...] about A Mummy in Jerusalem: Secrets of the Afterlife, Temporary Exhibition, till April 2017, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem