BBCNEWS The Travel Show June 4, 2024 20:45:00
They are displayed as objects. they are artefacts. they are not humans. they lose their humanity once they are on display in the museum. it's not only disrespectful for the ancient egyptians, but it doesn't recognise the wishes of the dead. so this is the pitt rivers museum, and the pitt rivers museum was founded in 1881. up untiljuly 2020, we would have a display which was called treatment of dead enemies, and that would be full of sort of human remains of different communities in the world. so in 2020 we took the human remains off display, after quite an elaborate process of doing an ethical...