Virtual Lecture with an Egyptologist: Flinders Petrie on Golden Mummies, Race, and Faces

British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie was keen on matching skulls with mummy masks and portraits and identifying what he believed to be racial types. Dr. Campbell Price discusses Petrie’s discovery of the golden mummies at Hawara and how Petrie’s study and interpretation have perpetuated racial biases and hierarchies in Egyptology.

This virtual lecture is part of Golden Mummies of Egypt educational programming and is supported by the Gerhard L. Weinberg Endowment Fund.

[MrK-wuci]

11:00 Petrie's funding: Jesse Haworth and Amelia Edwards.

Both were born in the 1830s.

[tonymolloy]

I was in Hawara this year. Zero tourists and mummies still sticking out of the ground. How can we blame Petrie for not preserving every mummy when present day Egyptologists don't either?

[vootamu]

It's "not new" and these antiquated views are still present: We show an excerpt of a training video — now removed from the internet — by an *anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University who has been using the bones of at least one of the young bombing victims for the past 36 years* — without the knowledge or consent of the families — and get response from a MOVE family member. “It makes you wonder: What else do they have?” says Mike Africa Jr., a second-generation MOVE member who grew up with the children whose remains have now been located. “What else are they covering up? What else are they lying about?”