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One of the star objects of the newly opened Islamic World gallery in the British Museum is this ewer from Herat, with beautiful birds surrounding the collar. With X-ray CT scanning, Museum scientists were able to determine how the birds were made. #PhotonFriday @britishmuseum
The ewer was scanned in the British Museum's X-ray Imaging laboratory, located 4 floors underneath the Museum. On the right of this picture is the X-ray tube. The X-rays come out from just behind the brass square, pass through the ewer, and make an image on a digital detector 
The X-rays can be very high in energy (max. 450 keV for fellow photon-aholics), very helpful for looking through brass/silver objects such as this
