Egypt
Minerva Magazine
- Ancient Human Remains From Sudan: Training Future Specialists
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) Sudan has perhaps one of the richest and most fascinating archaeological records in the world. Construction projects such as roads and dams are an increasing threat to its cultural heritage which prompts a large number...
- Do Ancient Egyptians Have A Right To Privacy?
New Scientist (Jo Marchant) SHOULD we consider the privacy or reputation of the individual when analysing an Egyptian mummy? The assumption that ancient corpses are fair game for science is beginning to be challenged. Though strict ethical guidelines...
- New Book: Belief In The Past
Left Coast Press Belief in the Past Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion David S. Whitley (Editor); Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Editor) One of potential interest to anyone interested in ancient religions. There's no table of contents so it...
- More Responses To Covering Of Mummies In The Uk
Inquirer.net It is interesting that Hawass takes this line because Egypt's own Royal Mummy room at the Cairo museum in Tahrir Square lines up the royal mummies like sardines in glass boxes. Their bodies are covered but their faces and occasionally...
- More Re Decision To Cover Manchester Mummies
The decision by Manchester Museum to cover the ancient Egyptian mummies that it has on display has now come to the attention of the UK's national media. Here are a few of the reports that have come out. BBC News On its website, the museum said the...
Egypt
Book Review: Contesting Human Remains / Ethics and Burial Archaeology
Minerva Magazine
Minerva currently has a review of two books looking at ethics and the handling of human remains. There have been discussions about the handling of mummified remains by museums. The debate at the Manchester Museum is a good example.
In the UK, human remains are currently a matter of contention and debate. On 4 February 2011, 40 archaeology professors wrote an open letter to Kenneth Clarke published in The Guardian, objecting to the current license conditions for excavating human remains that had been imposed on archaeologists by the Ministry of Justice since 2008. These conditions stipulate that UK archaeologists must rebury all human remains within two years of their exhumation.
The two books under review, individually and in combination, provide the context that led to this letter being composed, and together constitute a new voice for mortuary archaeology in the UK. Jenkins and Sayer both achieve their aims of writing fluent and well argued accounts of how the study and display of human remains from mortuary contexts constitute a long-standing aspect of British research culture and popular science.
- Ancient Human Remains From Sudan: Training Future Specialists
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) Sudan has perhaps one of the richest and most fascinating archaeological records in the world. Construction projects such as roads and dams are an increasing threat to its cultural heritage which prompts a large number...
- Do Ancient Egyptians Have A Right To Privacy?
New Scientist (Jo Marchant) SHOULD we consider the privacy or reputation of the individual when analysing an Egyptian mummy? The assumption that ancient corpses are fair game for science is beginning to be challenged. Though strict ethical guidelines...
- New Book: Belief In The Past
Left Coast Press Belief in the Past Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion David S. Whitley (Editor); Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Editor) One of potential interest to anyone interested in ancient religions. There's no table of contents so it...
- More Responses To Covering Of Mummies In The Uk
Inquirer.net It is interesting that Hawass takes this line because Egypt's own Royal Mummy room at the Cairo museum in Tahrir Square lines up the royal mummies like sardines in glass boxes. Their bodies are covered but their faces and occasionally...
- More Re Decision To Cover Manchester Mummies
The decision by Manchester Museum to cover the ancient Egyptian mummies that it has on display has now come to the attention of the UK's national media. Here are a few of the reports that have come out. BBC News On its website, the museum said the...