The word “mummy” has fallen out of favor at British museums, but it once connoted a substance prized as an aphrodisiac and panacea
to avoid the use of the word “mummy” in descriptions of human remains from ancient Egypt. Museum officials are instead opting to use terms such as “mummified person” or to highlight the names of individuals “to emphasize that they were once living people,” CNN says.
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