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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17732, 7 April 1923, Page 7

Those who ' advo«ate the exhibition of the body of TutanSTiamcn in some museum should visit the Lgyptian department at the British Museum (observes W- P. in the London "Daily Graphic"). What possible service is rendered by the public exhibition of these mummies I cannot comprehend. The cases are beautiful worlcs of art, showing a superlative mastery of line and colour, which makes one realise how little there is that is "royal" about our Royal Academy. The arts and crafts of tho ancient Egyptians are a constant source of wonder, and ought to be a constant cpuse of humility to modern man, but these arts and crafts can be explained and illustrated without the presence of unpleasant photographs or wizened, twisted bodies. It seems to me that if mummies are to m? put on show, after all the historical information they can convey has been gleaned, f.h(3v should be on oxhib'it'Ton only grown-up people—at least in every instance where the remains are merely