{"id":24147,"date":"2026-10-24T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/?p=24147"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:31:45","slug":"glasgow-mummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/glasgow-mummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow museums remove and cover Egyptian mummy remains over lack of the dead’s consent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the Scottish city of Glasgow removed from its display halls the painted coffin of the Egyptian priest Nekht and his remains, a mummified male head, a right foot, and a right hand found in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, according to a statement<\/a> by Glasgow Life, which runs the museum with funding from Glasgow City Council, reported by the Scottish press on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the organization said the removal of the remains “reflects contemporary museum practice,” and that a new draft human remains policy proposes that they be displayed only with “documented and informed” consent from the deceased themselves, or from their descendants in appropriate circumstances. The spokesperson cited the International Council of Museums’ Code of Ethics revised in June 2026, and the 2025 report “Laying Ancestors to Rest” by a British parliamentary group on Afrikan reparations, which called for an end to the display of Egyptian mummies. The spokesperson added that the organization is working to remove archaeological human remains from two other galleries<\/a> at Kelvingrove, followed by a coffin and mummified remains at the St Mungo Museum in the city.<\/p>\n

Nekht’s coffin dates to the 12th Dynasty (1985 to 1797 BC), and was excavated from Tomb 130 at Beni Hasan during University of Liverpool excavations between 1902 and 1904, and arrived in Glasgow as a gift in 1923. In the same city, the Hunterian Museum, run by the University of Glasgow, covered<\/a> the mummy of the lady Shep-en-Hor with a cloth designed to hide it from visitors, and a spokesperson said she “deserves privacy in death,” while her decorated coffin remains on display. The two museums said they would consider returning the remains if they received a request from a state or an institution.<\/p>\n

Murdo Fraser, a member of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Conservatives’ culture spokesman, said the decision was “woke madness.” A spokesperson for National Museums Scotland said it is not considering any change to the display of human remains in its collections, which include mummies from Egypt and Peru.<\/p>\n

Photo: Stinglehammer via Wikimedia Commons<\/a> (CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum removed the remains of Egyptian priest Nekht and other mummified parts from display, citing no documented consent from the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20481],"tags":[20993,20992,20991,20995,20994,20990],"kateb":[710],"class_list":["post-24147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-brief","tag-egyptian-antiquities-abroad","tag-egyptian-mummies","tag-glasgow","tag-hunterian-museum","tag-international-council-of-museums","tag-kelvingrove-museum","kateb-zawia3-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/glasgow-mummies-en.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24171,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147\/revisions\/24171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24147"},{"taxonomy":"kateb","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kateb?post=24147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}