Glasgow museum pulls mummies from display over consent

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA Scottish museum has taken its ancient Egyptian mummies off display because nobody can show the dead ever agreed to be looked at, The Daily Wire reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis is Kelvingrove in Glasgow, which gets more than one point three million visitors a year, and the Ancient Egypt galleries were among its star attractions.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe removed items include a priest named Nekht, a mummified right hand, a male head and a right foot. A foot, Hank.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA right foot.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTheir own policy says mummified bodies need documented, informed consent from the deceased or, in the right circumstances, descendants.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo somebody has to ask a priest named Nekht to sign. I assume the letter begins, dear sir, apologies for the delay.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGlasgow Life, which runs the museum, says that without consent, removal is more respectful to the deceased. It also says this reflects contemporary museum practice.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMurdo Fraser, a Scottish Tory MSP, called it woke madness at its most ridiculous, and a visitor's daughter, excited by a book on ancient Egyptians, went to see the mummy and found it gone.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHer face, Hank.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe museum did put up a sign saying the remains were removed as a mark of respect.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo what happens to the empty case, then? Do they ask the case?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNobody has written back yet.