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Zahi Hawass Is Calling For The Closure Of An English Museum Selling Ancient Egyptian Skulls
English museum offering ancient Egyptian skulls for sale?!
Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass called for the closure of an English museum that was offering ancient Egyptian skulls for sale, stating that this action is “unethical.”
Hawass said in televised statements that “the offer to sell Egyptian archaeological skulls is unethical, disrespectful, and heinous,” noting that “selling mummies at auction is a strange behavior.”
He emphasized that he is “pleased with what an English deputy said and her statements about them being colonial acts.”
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18 Egyptian archaeological skulls were being sold at an auction within a museum in London
It was announced that 18 Egyptian archaeological skulls were being sold at an auction within a museum in London owned by a British military officer and archaeologist. It was reported that this auction has been halted, although Hawass did not mention the name of the museum that was requested to be closed.
Colonial acts
He added that “European museums and Western countries should stop their colonial actions.”
He explained that “Egyptian antiquities were taken during the French and English colonial period and are still present in European museums,” and that European and American museums continue to engage in colonial acts by “buying stolen antiquities.”
The archaeologist mentioned that “in the 16th and 18th centuries, England and France sent pirates to Luxor and left Egypt at that time with thousands of mummies, which were used for medical purposes,” confirming that “there is no museum in America, Britain, or France without Egyptian mummies, and all of these mummies are not owned.”
He confirmed that “there is an Arab billionaire who acquired an Egyptian statue through an English auction.”
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