The work of the mummy investigator, increasingly, is to let these ancient people speak for themselves while disturbing them as little as possible.
Modern methods combine with old-fashioned respect.
There are messages for the modern world in these voices from the tomb. Miriam Bibby reports. No fear of the curse of the mummy here, then. Belzoni s treatment of these now priceless artefacts sends a shudder of genuine horror through modern day students of ancient Egypt. It wasn t the only indignity awaiting the remains of the people of this extraordinary cult ure.