The British Museum's Own Curators' Corner and Heka Exhibition Records

Two records held together, both the British Museum's own: the Curators' Corner episode "We Used Ancient Egyptian Magic to Heal Our Colleagues" (Season 10, Episode 9), published on the Museum's own YouTube channel (youtube.com/@britishmuseum), in which Museum staff step into a recreated "Curator's Clinic" to explore how ancient Egyptian magical specialists worked, addressing troubles such as crocodile attacks and worries about bad dreams through protective spells; and the Museum's own touring exhibition page "Heka: magic in ancient Egypt," whose own text describes heka as "a magical element as natural and powerful as the gods themselves, central to both life and the afterlife," woven into every aspect of life "including childcare, medicine, justice and religious practice," and states that amulets were activated not by their presence alone but by heka, the force of magic expressed through words, names and spoken formulae.