Egypt
At some time in ancient history these were living beings with all their sensitivity and foibles of being alive. Everyone dies but not everyone has their body turned into a mummy and the people who do not want to look at the dead probably should not.
The point is made moot by the very fact that I already have pictures of the mummy named Asru. Whether the other mummies are also published or are to be left unstudied in the name of false decency remains.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1059840_mummies_coverup_reversed
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- 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...
- More Re Manchester Mummies
Thanks very much to Bob Partridge (editor of Ancient Egypt magazine) for copying me in on an update re the Manchester mummies. As I reported on on August 4th the Manchester mummies, which were covered up in May pending the outcome of a consultation re...
- Covering The Mummies
Egypt at the Manchester Museum Blog I stumbled across this blog more or less by accident. I had no idea that it existed, but it looks like a very good idea. The same sort of thing has been set up and maintained by several U.S. universities, which have...
- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...
Egypt
My Cold Naked Body
At some time in ancient history these were living beings with all their sensitivity and foibles of being alive. Everyone dies but not everyone has their body turned into a mummy and the people who do not want to look at the dead probably should not.
The point is made moot by the very fact that I already have pictures of the mummy named Asru. Whether the other mummies are also published or are to be left unstudied in the name of false decency remains.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1059840_mummies_coverup_reversed
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- 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...
- More Re Manchester Mummies
Thanks very much to Bob Partridge (editor of Ancient Egypt magazine) for copying me in on an update re the Manchester mummies. As I reported on on August 4th the Manchester mummies, which were covered up in May pending the outcome of a consultation re...
- Covering The Mummies
Egypt at the Manchester Museum Blog I stumbled across this blog more or less by accident. I had no idea that it existed, but it looks like a very good idea. The same sort of thing has been set up and maintained by several U.S. universities, which have...
- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...