The world's largest mummy exhibition opens

Mummies of adults and children worldwide are on display at a new exhibition opened in the city of Mannheim, Germany. A famous critic in this country said the incident went too far.

The organizers of the exhibition recommended that those who are weak should be best avoided the exhibition at the Reiss-Engelhorn museum, Mannheim.

With the theme: " Mummies - Dream of eternal life ", the world's largest mummy exhibition takes place from September 30 to March 24, 2008. More than 70 mummies from all over the world like Chile, Peru, Hungary, Egypt and a tattoo mummy skull from New Zealand appeared at the exhibition.

One of the highlights of the exhibition was " Windeby I " - mummies found in a peat bog in northern Germany. This 1,800-year-old mummy was carefully transported from the Schloss Gottort National Museum in Schlewig-Holstein to Manheim. Until recently, it was still called the " Windeby Girl " but scientists have recently shown that it is a boy through DNA testing patterns.

On Friday (September 28), in the debate evokes criticism around Gunther von Hagen's exhibition of plastination-preserved bodies, a famous German critic accused him of Mannheim museum leaders entice visitors with " porn mummies ".

Speaking on German radio, Dietrich Wildung, director of Berlin's famous Egyptian museum, said: "Exhibition of mummies is a taboo." According to Wildung, it is a violation of the right to rest of the dead, even though their bodies have been there for thousands of years. And that the Egyptian museum in Berlin never made public the collection of wishes and was planning to bring mummies back to Egypt to bury them properly.

Reiss-Engelhorn museum director Alfred Wieczorekm reacted calmly to the criticism."I know Mr. Wildungs' personal remarks, he always rejects any display of mummies." Mr. Wildungs ​​reacted too hastily when he did not see how to display the mummies, Alfred said, the museum sought to avoid displaying the mummies in a sensational way.

Hoai Linh