The Mummy #1 Manages to Make the Dullest Monster Great (Review)
This might sound harsh, but The Mummy is, without question, the weakest overall franchise when we’re talking about the ...
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The 2,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy that No Archaeologist Dares to Open
No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.
A New Trustee at the British Museum Is Opposed to Returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece
Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken ...
Archaeologists stunned by one of Britain's biggest Iron Age hoards which could rewrite history
One of the largest and most significant Iron Age hoards ever discovered in the UK has been unveiled. It will likely reshape ...
The Life Scientific - Rosalie David
Rosalie tells Jim Al-Khalili about her journey from classics and ancient history to biomedicine, including some of her adventures in Egypt in the 1960s. She talks about some of her most significant ...
The Bashiri mystery: A 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy that no archaeologist dares to open
A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 4,000-year-old finding gives bleak assessment on 'red tape'
The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...
How can we ethically display the dead in museums? What about resin casts of those who died violently in Pompeii?
Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of ...
Why UK museums aren’t handing back human remains, despite calls to do so
This would include banning their public display without consent from the Human Tissue Authority and ensuring that museums ...
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Museums and auction houses should not hold human remains, UK lawmakers say
“In more recent times, Egyptian mummified persons have been transformed to the popularised, haunted ‘mummy’ figure ... During the parliamentary debate, Boateng criticized the British Museum in London ...
Egyptian mummy displays offend 'the wishes of the ancestors' MPs say
Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains in museums and universities should be banned as it offends the 'wishes of the ancestors', MPs have claimed.The all-party parliamentary group for ...
Displaying Egyptian mummies in museums is morally wrong, say MPs
All-party parliamentary group calls for changes in law as remains were acquired under ‘colonial regimes of exploitation’ ...