{"id":1613,"date":"2024-04-09T18:09:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2024-04-28T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:10:51","slug":"sun-04-28-scrutiny-mummies-and-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/2024\/04\/09\/sun-04-28-scrutiny-mummies-and-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun 04\/28 Scrutiny: Mummies and Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassadors of culture, or sensationalist and disrespectful? The display of ancient Egyptian mummies in museums, historically celebrated by visitors eager to learn more about ancient Egypt, is a practice increasingly called into question, with many wondering who ultimately dictates the fate of those who have been mummified. Join Egyptologists Salima Ikram and Heba Abd el-Gawad in conversation as they discuss the complexity of shifting practices and ideologies, the ethics of displaying ancient Egyptian mummies in museums, and the ownership of ancient Egyptian culture. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emory.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_7k9VgSq2Q3GH_TgqEO3i7Q#\/registration\">Click here to register<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carlos.emory.edu\/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D173495441\">click here to read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Time &amp; Place: In light of recent events, Scrutiny: Mummies and Museums has been cancelled. Please be on the look out for updates. Thank you to all those who were looking forward to this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassadors of culture, or sensationalist and disrespectful? The display of ancient Egyptian mummies in museums, historically celebrated by visitors eager to learn more about ancient Egypt, is a practice increasingly called into question, with many wondering who ultimately dictates the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/2024\/04\/09\/sun-04-28-scrutiny-mummies-and-museums\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/nae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}