Putting Mummies on Display

Kintarō Hattori

Hey Folks,

I was just reading on the BBC News website how some archaeologists have removed Tutankhamun's mummy from his sarcophagus and put it on display.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7078045.stm

What do you guys think about putting a mummy on display? I reckon myself that it's disrespectful. This was someone who was laid to rest in such a way as to never be disturbed but yet someone has decided to remove the mummy from the sarcophagus and then from the coffin itself after 3000 years having been undisturbed.

I'm not religous and I have a passing interest in history but I can't help but feel that it's just not right. It's disturbing someone after they have passed on.

What do you lot reckon?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it's a mummified corpse, i don't think it cares...

alan4cult

Somebody's got to compete with Madame Tussauds.

Rabies

Wow.... he was tiny.

I'm not pushed either way. Let people learn about the past before we destroy it all.

Lands Leaving

Rabies wrote: »

Wow.... he was tiny.

Well he was the boy king!

In that first picture it looks like the guy is trying to scare ol tut, BOO! oh, right you're dead. sorry.

Mr.Micro

I dont think Tut would mind .Isnt that what many people want to be remembered after your dead ie famous .

Capt'n Midnight

Thought this was going to be a MILF thread

Nevyn

eo980 wrote: »

Hey Folks,

I was just reading on the BBC News website how some archaeologists have removed Tutankhamun's mummy from his sarcophagus and put it on display.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7078045.stm

What do you guys think about putting a mummy on display? I reckon myself that it's disrespectful. This was someone who was laid to rest in such a way as to never be disturbed but yet someone has decided to remove the mummy from the sarcophagus and then from the coffin itself after 3000 years having been undisturbed.

I'm not religous and I have a passing interest in history but I can't help but feel that it's just not right. It's disturbing someone after they have passed on.

What do you lot reckon?

Well do you feel the same way about the irish mummies on display in the national musem as part of the 'bog body' exhibit ? esp as some of them were susposedly religious sacrifices ?

http://www.museum.ie/exhibitionsandcollections/details.asp?id=169&subsection=collections&site_id=2

Kingship & Sacrifice, an exhibition of bog bodies and related finds, currently on at the National Museum of Ireland - Archeology

Kingship & Sacrifice features two Iron Age bodies, Old Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man, dating back 2,300 years which have been preserved in bogs until their discovery in 2003.



The first body dropped off a peat cutting machine in Clonycavan, Co. Meath and the second body was discovered by workmen clearing a drainage ditch through a peat bog at Oldcroghan, Co. Offaly.



A team of international specialists worked with Irish Antiquities and the Conservation Department of the National Museum to examine these human remains using CTI and MRI scans to examine the remains and discover how the men died.



Now a major exhibition gives an overview of the results of the analysis, along with other bog bodies from the collection of the National Museum, offers an opportunity to literally come 'face to face' with the past.



The analysis revealed that Clonycavan Man's diet was rich in vegetables while Old Croghan Man's had more meat and the Iron Age hair gel which Clonycavan Man wore in his hair is a vegetable plant oil mixed with a resin which probably came from France or Spain.



The exhibition also highlights a theory based on the proliferation of bog bodies discovered along ancient tribal boundaries and royal land, linking them with sovereignty and kingship sacrificial rituals during the Iron Age.

The theory proposes that the bodies were sacrificed to the gods of fertility to ensure a good harvest at the inauguration of a new reign. Research also indicates that other related material is connected with inauguration rituals of kings and that these rituals can be traced back to the Bronze Age.

Rhyme

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Thought this was going to be a MILF thread

Nah, that's 'mammaries.'

I'm just waiting for the curse to kick in again.

Terry

This guy?

Capt'n Midnight

Rhyme wrote: »

Nah, that's 'mammaries.'

* finds comfortable spot , determined to wait for the yummy mummies *

AlmightyCushion

Rabies wrote: »

Wow.... he was tiny.

It's not the size, but how you use it.

WindSock

Of course you should. How else are they going to break out of their sarcophagus and walk around with their arms in the air scaring everybody? Their too frail, otherwise.

ArthurDent

I'm in two minds -
I've been to the Egyptian exhibits in London museum and louvre and saw the bog body exhibit in Dublin - was pretty disturbed by the rows and rows of cases of mummies in London, with people laughing and joking and pointing - felt they were very disrespectful. Thought the bog body exhibit was sensitively handled and really like the egyptian display in dublin - I think it is important for people to know how previous generations viewed life and death etc, but it needs to be done sensitively

Archeron

I think its okay as long the display is sensitively handled (as said above).

Whats really wrong is when they put the mummy in a blender with terriyaki sauce and make a delicious side order to serve with onion rings.

Somnus

ArthurDent wrote: »

I'm in two minds -
I've been to the Egyptian exhibits in London museum and louvre and saw the bog body exhibit in Dublin - was pretty disturbed by the rows and rows of cases of mummies in London, with people laughing and joking and pointing - felt they were very disrespectful. Thought the bog body exhibit was sensitively handled and really like the egyptian display in dublin - I think it is important for people to know how previous generations viewed life and death etc, but it needs to be done sensitively

Yeah I'd think the same kind of thing. People get to learn about life and culture in the past. I never really thought about that before. Because its for historic reasons I dont see a problem. There's a difference between that and digging up and desecrating a grave. I suppose there's aexamples where I'd diasgree though

Pj!

I only opened this thread to see how well "yore ma" was fitted in.

Not a sign of it. Dissapointed. Oh and i'm too tired to think of something amusing before you ask.

leninbenjamin

tbh i'd rather be put on display than rot in the ground. can't see why they'd complain. besides, it's what the Egyptian Pharaohs wanted, right? to be immortal? well it immortalizes them in history anyway....

Somnus

leninbenjamin wrote: »

tbh i'd rather be put on display than rot in the ground. can't see why they'd complain. besides, it's what the Egyptian Pharaohs wanted, right? to be immortal? well it immortalizes them in history anyway....

Very true. And I wouldnt mind being dug up and studied by people in the future!

Call Me Jimmy

I think there should be a 2000 year period of rest before anyone is allowed to be dug up/ put on display. So tut's grand...

Pigman II

Stuff like pulling the brain out thru the nose just shows they were a bunch of african savages. We owe them no respect. Let's have a good gawk at King Tut instead.

leninbenjamin

Pigman II wrote: »

Stuff like pulling the brain out thru the nose just shows they were a bunch of african savages. We owe them no respect. Let's have a good gawk at King Tut instead.

in fairness we sit around on our arses all day posting on some virtual message board with hundreds of other anonymous users trying to bunk off doing anything productive... at least they had a bit of conviction about something

Latchy

If you dont have a mummie to spare ,one can alays dress up a manaquen and stick it near your bedroom or living room window :eek:.That will scare any potential burglar away