Mummies have rights!!!
How many of us would like to get their dead bodies put on display in glass boxes?
Not me at least!!
In this part of the world the sanctity of the dead is amazingly important...We are not supposed to talk while are at cemeteries unless its something meaningful or a verse of the Koran...and many other examples...
However, here in Egypt, we have the mummified remains of our ancestors, some of the greatest people of all time put in glass displays at the Egyptian Museum downin Tahrir, with people just looking at them and probably thinking of how disgusting they look in those forms and most likely no one thinking for once of how this was a man or woman of great impact on the civilised world...
They built pyramids and great tombs to be kept inside of, for people to look at from the outside, to reflect and talk about the greatness of the individual whose buried in that grand structure...
Below is Hawass, the head of the antiquities division (or whatever they call it) and I think with respect to what I am saying...the pic says enough!!
Our ancestors need to be taken back to their homes, their tombs were they belong...they definitely do not belong out here in the world we liv in and definitely not in a glass case in a museum in Tahrir!!
Not me at least!!
In this part of the world the sanctity of the dead is amazingly important...We are not supposed to talk while are at cemeteries unless its something meaningful or a verse of the Koran...and many other examples...
However, here in Egypt, we have the mummified remains of our ancestors, some of the greatest people of all time put in glass displays at the Egyptian Museum downin Tahrir, with people just looking at them and probably thinking of how disgusting they look in those forms and most likely no one thinking for once of how this was a man or woman of great impact on the civilised world...
They built pyramids and great tombs to be kept inside of, for people to look at from the outside, to reflect and talk about the greatness of the individual whose buried in that grand structure...
Below is Hawass, the head of the antiquities division (or whatever they call it) and I think with respect to what I am saying...the pic says enough!!
Our ancestors need to be taken back to their homes, their tombs were they belong...they definitely do not belong out here in the world we liv in and definitely not in a glass case in a museum in Tahrir!!
posted by Tamer at
2:42 PM
2 Comments:
totally disagree there with you tamer.
people watch them in awe, admire what they have acomplished and achieved.
Imagine that what you have done in your life still lives on thousands of years later and is a testimony to how great and magnificent you are.
Who'd say no to that?
What you are saying is cool...but I think the tombs are good enough for them to be admired as great people...I think that displaying the mask of Tut Ankh Amun (King Tut) in the Egyptian Museum is more than enough as a testimony of how great he was but I think displaying his mummfied corpse crosses the line
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