“The British Museum has tragically succumbed to advanced wokeness, having recently decided to stop using the word ‘mummy,’” reads the post. The post was liked more than 80 times within a week.

Multiple British museums are changing their language when referring to mummies, referring to them as "mummified persons," or the name of the historical figure, to pay more respect to the dead. The ...

London's British Museum alone holds over 100 mummies - bodies wrapped in linen and placed in coffins, some over 4,000 years ago. The UK's popular obsession with mummies dates back centuries, ...

British Museum A Guide to the First and Second Egyptian Rooms Mummies, Mummy-Cases, and other Objects connected with the Funeral Rites of the Ancient Egyptians. Nature 59 , 50–51 (1898). https ...