UK museums shy away from using ‘mummy’ to describe ancient Egyptian remains: it’s ‘dehumanizing’
“A dead Egyptian body, or a living British matriarch,” read the clue that Alex Trebek gave Jeopardy! contestants on a February 2015 episode. “What is a mummy?” one of the contestants replied. Although Trebek accepted the response, a museum administrator in the UK today might tut-tut this exact wording. Visitors view some of the Egyptian … Read more