DISPATCHES FROM THE MUMMY STATE: Scottish Museum sending mummy’s remains back to Egypt.

A Scottish museum that removed a mummy from display because it didn’t have the deceased person’s “consent” will now return the remains to Egypt.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow removed the coffin and mummified corpse of an ancient Egyptian priest known as Nekht to show him “respect”.

The council-controlled body which runs the museum, Glasgow Life, explained that it did not have “consent” for the display “from the deceased individual or their descendants”.

Other items removed include a a mummified male head and right foot and a hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.

The Telegraph has learnt that the mummy is to be returned to Egypt following a request for repatriation.

In response, “Scottish Conservative culture spokesman Murdo Fraser said: ‘This is woke madness at its most ridiculous. Even Egyptian mummies are now being cancelled by a society so obsessed with modern sensibilities that it has lost all sense of perspective.’”