Scans of the mummies were included while the show was on tour – but have now been removed (which involved reworking information displays at some cost), to reflect Manchester Museum's new thinking about how to present such sensitive artefacts. And now Campbell Price, the curator, is on something of a mission: to change how we think and talk about mummies.įor starters, and rather unusually these days, they are not including any X-rays or CT scans of the human remains below the wrappings there is no bio-medical speculation on how old these people were when they passed away or how they died. The show has arrived home in Manchester after touring North America and China while the museum was shut for refurbishment. It includes eight mummies dating from the Graeco-Roman period (300BC to 300AD), brought to Britain by archaeologist Flinders Petrie, following his 1888– excavations of a huge necropolis at Hawara, in the Faiyum region south of Cairo. Manchester Museum in the north of England reopened last month after a £15m redevelopment project – and their free opening exhibition, Golden Mummies of Egypt, showcases their incredible Egyptology collection.
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