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If perpetuated rather than halted, the display of mummies could be used to actively combat disparaging media stereotypes. This use of facial morphology to concoct biographies of Egyptians for the purpose of asserting Western values may set a precedent for contemporary popular interpretations of mummies, long after the dismissal of physiognomy as a pseudoscience. On the one hand, I need to work to give a future to Jasmine, on the other, I need to be there for her. If the exhibition of human remains can be ju- stified where their authenticity can be made known to viewers and the remains invested by them with sympathetic emotional meaning, it may be pointless if not unethical to show quasi-lifelike posed plastinates to young children in lieu of replica models.

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Ultimately, time is the dragon imprisoning the mummy; a contradictory figure who is ages old yet perpetually youthful, she cannot abide forever with her lover from the modern world, and disappears like a ghost or crumbles into dust. These spectacular displays claim to be educative, demo- cratizing the study of anatomy and liberating it from the traditional confines of professional medical study. The immediate fears of a crippling injury thankfully dissipated once it was discovered our hero’s fall had been broken by his backside rather than his neck.