They have therefore preferred to say “mummified person” or “mummified fingerprint”. They say that this word dehumanizes them and is not suitable for talking about the people who lived in the past. They consider that it also refers to a fictional monster and that the term also has a colonialist tone.

Hundreds and hundreds of mummies expolited in Egypt (forgiveness, mummified people) and, in general, the non-return of the expolited heritage in other countries seems not to have a colonialist tone.