Site at ancient capital of Memphis used to mummify humans and animals nearly two and a half thousand years ago

Israel Museum expert says CT scans offer best way to examine how coffins, including one almost 3,000 years old, were made and decorated

Three-meter-tall coffin, which may have belonged to priest named Ankhenmaat, was stolen and smuggled via Germany into US in 2008; returned in official Cairo ceremony

Sealed wooden coffins belonged to top officials of ancient Egypt some 2,500 years ago

Find includes 20 limestone sarcophagi etched with hieroglyphs, hundreds of amulets and 10,000 blue funerary statues dating to 664-399 BCE