The Mystery of the Screaming Mummy
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There s a disturbance in the force
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CAMPBELL PRICE is one of the great communicators on all things ancient Egypt check out his excellent YouTube seminar on the subject and you’ll see why and his interest in that ancient world was first piqued at a very young age at the Kelvingrove Museum in his native Glasgow.
“The perfume of antiquity” which pervaded the Egyptian objects on display drew him in: “I’ve been hooked ever since,” he says. He’s Curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum, which houses one of Britain’s largest Egyptology collections, and he has just published a new book Mummies of Egypt, which investigates the colonial acquisition of Egyptian antiquities and the ways in which they have been interpreted in the Western world.