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Mummified - The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums

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The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.We all know what a mummy is - or do we? In Mummified, Angela Stienne explores the little-known stories behind the Ancient Egyptian remains displayed in British and French museums.Taking the reader on a journey between Egypt, Paris and London, Stienne exposes a murky world of grave-robbing, theft and black-market deals over human remains. Mummies have been unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and even eaten for their supposed health-giving properties. But does the fact they are thousands of years old mean they can be treated as objects, or do we owe them the same respect we would any other human body?Investigating matters of life and death and the ethics of collection and display, Mummified offers a fresh perspective on these ancient bodies, which have fascinated Europeans for centuries.

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Authors Angela Stienne
Publisher Manchester University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2021
 
EAN 9781526161895
ISBN 978-1-5261-6189-5
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 140 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Non-fiction book

Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, HISTORY / Europe / France, ART / Museum Studies, Material Culture, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Ancient Egypt, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, Museums & museology

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