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WATCH: UK Museums Remove Mummies From Display Over Consent Concerns
The recent removal of Egyptian mummies from a number of museums across the UK is raising questions of ethics, consent and repatriation.
Nov 09, 2026
Can corpses consent? It's not a question that comes up often, until a number of museums in the United Kingdom made the decision to hide or remove Egyptian mummified bodies out of ethical concerns and respect for the dead. With recent reports that Egypt had asked for the repatriation of these remains coming to light, however, the conversation has shifted - if ethical concerns dictate that these museums shouldn't display the bodies, then shouldn't those same concerns decide whether they keep them in the first place?
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