“Curator’s Dream”

They started to unfold the fabric, the ancient textile that was described as the “curators dream” took almost 24 hours to unwrap and dry off. But what they saw after the fabric had dried, faded the grueling memory of the last night. Once it lay bared in front of the archeologists, they saw “tantalizing glimpses of colorful painted details,” as said by one of the curators afterward in an interview. What was the object that was shining so brightly nearly blinding everyone in the room?