“Horus was showcased inside a decommissioned Edmonton Transit bus alongside various graveyard paraphernalia and taken on tour across Alberta.”
An Egyptian mummy nicknamed Horus ended up at the University of Alberta after decades as a sideshow attraction. Displayed in vacant storefronts. Toured around in a repurposed bus. Someone invented a fake biography claiming it was a 4,500-year-old physician. The piece raises uncomfortable questions about how Western institutions have treated human remains from other cultures. The sacred turned into spectacle.