"As the Egyptian Egyptologist Heba Abd El Gawad pointed out in a panel, discussions like these often happen between academics & museums, excluding contemporary Egyptian communities whose displaced ancestors are interred in these museums.

...[R]ebranding a 'mummy' as 'mummified person' is more performative than it is a meaningful way to respect that person or the culture they came from."

My take? #Repatriate + #Rebury

#ConsciousLanguage #Egypt #Egyptology

https://defector.com/how-to-respect-a-mummy