Should mummies be on display?
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Why Do We Go and Look at Dead Body in Museums?
Why do we think it's all right to go in and look at dead bodies, essentially, in museums? You know, for me, this is the most fascinating ersed areo of of research in my walk. I think there's this definite lyt sense of curiosity. There is this sort of a relationship to death as well. And they've been part of this european landscape for so long that through history, you know, that whether ther that somehow our lives are entangled with the live of egyptian mummies is actually quite strange but also peculiar compared to other non european human remains.
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