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Facial depictions of ancient Egyptians known as the Goucher (left) and Cohen (right) mummies. Facial depiction images were displayed in the exhibition, Who Am I? Remembering the Dead Through Facial Reconstruction, at Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum in 2018.
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It has been proposed that we are entering the age of postmortalism, where digital immortality is a credible option. The desire to overcome death has occupied humanity for centuries, and even though biological immortality is still impossible, recent technological advances have enabled possible eternal life in the metaverse. In palaeoanthropology and...
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... facial depictions represent ancient populations and raise questions relating to authenticity, Eurocentric colonialism, and past biases on how we conduct and interpret science, along with the issue of consent of descendent communities. In 2018, the authors of this paper produced archaeological facial depictions of two ancient Egyptians for a project at Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum [12] that resulted in an exhibition titled Who Am I? Remembering the Dead Through Facial Reconstruction (Figure 2). The project aimed to re-humanise the bodies of two mummified people, known as the Goucher Mummy and the Cohen Mummy, named after their respective collectors, Methodist minister John Goucher and Colonel Mendes Israel Cohen, who attempted to unwrap the remains for display in travelling exhibitions. ...
