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Meanwhile, The Hunterian said it had sought advice from Egyptologists before protecting Lady Shep-En-Hor’s remains as part of a “commitment to becoming a more ethical institution”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the museum, managed by the University of Glasgow, said the conclusion of that consultation led to the view Lady Shep-En-Hor “deserved privacy in death”.<\/p>\n

Her ornate sarcophagus, which has been on display almost continuously since 1820, will remain on public view as a “fine work of late period ancient Egyptian funerary art”.<\/p>\n

Lady Shep-En-Hor has never been removed from the coffin, but has been X-rayed and CT scanned in the last 50 years.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, several theories were put forward questioning whether the remains in the coffin were actually those of Lady Shep-En-Hor.<\/p>\n

The Hunterian said excavators in the 19th century occasionally swapped over remains from different coffins, with better preserved specimens placed in the most intact or ornate sarcophagi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Meanwhile, The Hunterian said it had sought advice from Egyptologists before protecting Lady Shep-En-Hor’s remains as part of a “commitment to becoming a more ethical institution”. A spokesperson for the museum, managed by the University of Glasgow, said the conclusion of that consultation led to the view Lady Shep-En-Hor “deserved privacy in death”. Her ornate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1181,9325,17206,723,1285,7226,1866],"class_list":["post-63356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-glasgow","tag-mummified","tag-museums","tag-public","tag-remains","tag-remove","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63358,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63356\/revisions\/63358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}