WOKE museum chiefs have stopped referring to embalmed historic Egyptian dead as mummies.
Chiefs on the British Museum in London say it’s dehumanising to the individual’s reminiscence.
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They’re now referred to as “mummified individual” or “mummified stays”.
The gathering incorporates our bodies going again so far as 5,500 years.
And at Newcastle’s Nice North Museum: Hancock, a mummified girl shall be recognized solely by her title Irtyru.
The phrase is linked to horror movies reminiscent of smash hit The Mummy.
The phrase mummy has been utilized in English since not less than 1615.
Some say it has a colonial previous, being derived from “mummiya”, the Arabic phrase for the the bitumen used as an embalming substance.
Critics blasted the brand new phrases.
Marketing campaign for Actual Training’s Chris McGovern mentioned: “The curse of the mother is driving these lecturers mad!”
British Museum mentioned its shows “emphasised that mummified stays are of people that as soon as lived”.
