How do they have time for all of this?
at Legal Insurrection, I wrote that the Egyptians petitioned to return the iconic Rosetta Stone, which was used to decipher the hieroglyphics of the long-dead language.
They say the term is dehumanising to those who died and – of course – an unwelcome throwback to Britain’s colonial past.The British Museum says it uses the latter phrase to emphasise to visitors that they are looking at people who once lived, while the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle says that it has adopted the new terms for its mummified woman Irtyru, who dates from around 600BC, to acknowledge the history of colonial exploitation and to give her the respect she deserves.
A spokeswoman said: ‘Where we know the name of an individual we use that, otherwise we use “mummified man, woman, boy, girl or person” because we are referring to people, not objects.Using the term “mummified remains” can encourage visitors to think of the individual who once lived, the museums told CNN.
By “displaying her more sensitively,” Goldwater added, “we hope our visitors will see her remains for what they really are — not an object of curiosity, but a real human who was once alive and had a very specific belief about how her body should be treated after death.”But seriously, if those visitors do not understand those remains were once of a living person, then the region’s education system is seriously deficient. Language policing is not going to fix ignorance or increase sensitivity.
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