Posts Tagged ‘tutankhamen’

DEGRADING THE DEAD?

DEGRADING THE DEAD?

Phlllp Hensher (presumably this  is meant to be author Phillip Hensher) writes in the Sunday Tribune today about displaying the dead. In a meandering and ill-thought out piece (imho) he criticises the unveiling of Tutankhamun’s body and rails at the ‘recent’ habit of displaying the bodies of ‘unremarkable’ people. By ‘unremarkable’ he seems to mean […]