Should mummies be on display?
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The Use of New Technologies to Study Mummified Muses
In your book you talk about the use of new technologies to study mummie or to display them. So virtual unwrappings, using things like c t scans. Can solve a lot of these ethical dilemmas because it's non invasive. We can study these mummies without having to open them up and mess them around too much. But actually, in many ways, it actually just presents newethical dilemmas to grapple with. And so i do not have a definite answer to this, but what i witness is added ethical challenges.
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