Comments for Egypt at the Manchester Museum

Comment on Building pyramids and mummifying oranges… by Sean Williams

Sean Williams — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48:55 +0000

Would anyone be able to provide me with images for this event? It’s just the sort of thing we want to be covering at Heritage Key – check out our other events and news from Egypt and beyond.

Comment on Covering the mummies by lara

lara — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:34:46 +0000

hello i just want to say i really enjoyed the exhibits.
some people may not like them and find them disrespectful. i think its nice to see, so fascinating! i dont think couples and people who were buried together should be split up though. and unwrap a few of them, so we can observe more and learn more. but i think most should be kept wrapped and preserved. excellent and also excellent that photography is allowed.

lara x

Comment on FIlming Asru at The Manchester Museum by Egyptian Statue Fan

Egyptian Statue Fan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:07:54 +0000

Good to see the museum getting some exposure. Wish this was airing in the US, I’m quite interested in the topic of forensic Egyptology. Hope it turns out well.

Comment on Egypt in its African Context: Programme by Sean Williams

Sean Williams — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:56:08 +0000

This is a great subject – hope it takes in the pyramids of Meroe, which I think are some of the ancient world’s most beautiful creations.

Comment on Curator’s Diary, Thursday 28th May 2009 by Dave Counsell

Dave Counsell — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:32:59 +0000

Hi
Glad you were impressed by the Mnadjra temple in Malta. Did you get to see any of the others? It is common teaching by Egyptologists that the first monumental stone buildings are in Egypt. A visit to Malta demonstrates this to be clearly untrue as the temple remains, in stone, predate the Egyptian 3rd Dyn and contain sophisticated stone building techniques for example corbelled (cantilevered )ceilings such as seen in the pyramids and carved and often decorated door lintels etc.

Comment on Certificate in Egyptology graduation ceremony July 2009 by Shane

Shane — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:31:39 +0000

Congratulations everyone!
-Shane (Class of 2008)

Comment on Covering the mummies by Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:32:58 +0000

I think this is a good move personally.

The public display of Mummies is utterly disrespectful to the mummies themselves. Some of these mummies were gods and what is most important, people! Not only do we have the permission to take all their goods out of their tombs but we even go as far as to unwrap them and display them out like a carnivals “wonder of the world”. Through our chase for knowledge of the glorious Egyptian people, we forget that in the process we are spitting on their entire ideas of afterlife, and at how they perceived the world. One will never learn anything about a people, if you cant put yourself on their level. And on their level they would not want to be put on display, its messing with their afterlife.

Think about it. What if Pope John Paul II or JFK or Gandhi somehow managed to be mummified and was displayed in a glass case for everyone to see. There would be an absolute uproar. Just because someone is 3000 years older doesn’t make it any less wrong.

Without respect there can be no understanding.
You might be able to understand the process of mummification in the way we treat mummies now but you wont quite be able to understand their unique view of the world, which is much more important.

Comment on Curator’s Diary, Monday 1st June 2009 by Gary

Gary — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:37:12 +0000

Glad to see it will be re-opened. There was me thinking that the mummies were being covered up!

Will be back to see the Death and Afterlife gallery soon.

Comment on Uncovering the mummies: Monday 4th August 2008 by Gostixel

Gostixel — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:56:45 +0000

Да,несогласен с предыдущими ораторами
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Comment on Egypt in its African Context by Zeech

Zeech — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:39:06 +0000

I hope it’s ok to post this here. But I am in London and would like to attend, budget style. So I am interested in car pooling or renting some floor space for that weekend.