IT'S NOT THE HEAT, IT'S THE LACK OF HUMIDITY

 In Controversial Move, British    Museums Will Avoid Using  ‘Mummy’ to Describe Mummified Remains

BORIS KARLOFF,    AKA
THE MUMMIFIED PERSON 

The word ‘mummy’ is not incorrect, but it is dehumanizing, whereas the term ‘mummified person’ encourages our visitors to think of the individual,” 

a spokeswoman for National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh told the Daily Mail...

The shift in language to describe exhibits of these major Egyptian artifacts also follows an ongoing reexamination of colonialism in the United Kingdom, and the horrific way the mummified remains were treated in the past.

Art News January 25, 2023 5:56pm