I wrote yesterday about the removal of an ancient Egyptian mummy (and various other mummified bits and pieces) from public view at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. They are now being stored at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, a facility brutally described by the Scottish Daily Express, as “a vast warehouse in unfashionable Nitshill.”

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It has now emerged that a different Glasgow museum, the partly public-funded Hunterian, is now putting the mummy of the late Shep-En-Hor under wraps. Shep-En-Hor died around 600 b.c. Her mummy was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni (1778–1823), a.k.a. “The Great Belzoni,” a Venetian archaeologist. It has been a popular attraction for more than 200 years at the Hunterian but is now under wraps, covered by a fabric with the rather Vulcan name of Tyvek (actually a Dupont product).

Explaining the cover-up, the museum had........

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