The National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh and the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle have decided to avoid using the term “mummy,” preferring “mummified remains” or &…
“A dead Egyptian body, or a live British matriarch,” read the clue that Alex Trebek gave Jeopardy! contestants on a February 2015 episode.Though Trebek accepted the response, a museum administrator in the U.K. today might tut-tut this exact wording.
“The word ‘mummy’ is not incorrect, but it is dehumanizing, whereas using the term ‘mummified person’ encourages our visitors to think of the individual,” explained a spokeswoman from the National Museums Scotland to the Daily Mail.mummified man, woman, boy, girl, or personThe National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh and the Great North Museum have decided to avoid using the term “mummy.
The British Museum in London rebutted a claim by the Daily Mail that they had banned the term themselves but agreed with the approach of their colleagues in Edinburgh and Newcastle.
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