Mummy: The Inside Story. London: British Museum. July 2004 – August 2005 [Review]

The promise offered in the exhibition's title remains, of course, unrealized: after being herded through this three part installation, one is struck with the sense, not that the inside story has been told, but that the suggested depth, once probed, gives way to superficies. What makes "Mummy: The Inside Story" so unsatisfying is that its enticement of a supposed revealing whets the appetite without fulfilling the cravings it provokes.