Some museums in Britain are now using words other than 'mummy' to describe their displays of ancient Egyptian human remains
But some museums in Britain are now using words other thanInstead, they are starting to adopt terms such as"mummified person" or to use the individual's name to emphasize that they were once living people.
"We have human remains from around the world, and we may vary the terminology we use depending on ... how they've been preserved. We have natural mummies from pre-dynastic Egypt, so we'll refer to them as natural mummies because they haven't been artificially mummified," he added. However, it added,"our recent displays used the term 'mummified remains of...' and include the name of the person who has been mummified...[to emphasize] that mummified remains are of people who once lived."David Cheskin - PA Images/PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images
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