Mummified Angela Stienne

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From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than meets the eye.

Join cultural historian, museum researcher and storyteller Angela Stienne, author of Mummified, as she explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums.

Go on a journey from Paris to London, Leicester and Manchester, from the apothecaries of the Middle Ages to the dissecting tables of the eighteenth century, and, finally, behind the screen of today’s computers, to revisit the stories of these bodies that have fascinated Europeans for so long.

Do not miss this entertaining investigation of matters of life and death, of collecting and viewing, and of interactions - sometimes violent and sometimes emotional - that question the essence of what makes us human.

This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You’ll receive a link to join a couple of days before the event takes place and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.

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