British museum receives complaints about nude mummies
June 26, 2008 - File this one under 'You've got to be kidding...'
Thе Mаnchеstеr Museum in England houses Britain's largest collection of Egyptian artifacts. But following complaints from visitors about the mummies being displayed "naked", the museum is going to keep the mummies covered until they can figure out how best to display them.
Egyptologists decried the move as a 'step backward' for an educational institution. It certainly is, but we think it's a far more telling sign of how hysterical the world is becoming about nudity. When a waxy 3000 year old remnant of a person can be deemed immodest, things have definitely gotten out of hand.
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