Mummy Exhibitionism in Cairo and Paris
From Cairo’s Royal Mummies Hall to Paris’s self-questioning Momies exhibition, a journey through grave robbing, scientific discovery, and the muddy ethics of displaying the dead.
Bron Taylor
Professor of Religion, Nature, and Ethics, the University of Florida | books include Dark Green Religion and the Planetary Future, Avatar and Nature Spirituality, Ecological Resistance Movements, and the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
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