So you're a 13th century BC pharoah and you go through a LOT of trouble in order to have the proper afterlife. Mummification, memorize all the proper passwords to get safely to the afterlife, doing good deeds in order to have a successful weighing of one's heart, arranging to be provided with food and drink, being entombed with one's worldy goods, building a pyramid. You know, simple stuff like that.
Then the next thing you know, 3300 years laters your mummified remains are being displayed in a glass case in a Cairo Museum. Unethical or not? Respect the dead? What's the statute of limitations on that?
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