The Guanche mummy was an adult male ... and accepted practice by many museums around the world, from the British Museum to the Museum of Cairo. In Spain, some museums took steps in the last ...

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the sale of human body parts in auction houses.

This would include banning their public display without consent from the Human Tissue Authority and ensuring that museums obtain a licence from the authority for their storage. It’s further ...

For centuries, ancient Egyptian mummies have been the most reliable crowd-pleasers in museums across Britain. London's British Museum alone holds over 100 mummies - bodies wrapped in linen and ...

All-party parliamentary group calls for changes in law as remains were acquired under ‘colonial regimes of exploitation’ ...

The decision has garnered a variety of opinions. Unlike others, the British Museum of London said it "hasn't banned the use of the term 'mummy' and it is still in use across our galleries" but ...

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is ...

Telling history through things, whether it's a mummy's coffin or a credit card, is what museums are for and, because the British Museum has collected things from all over the globe, it's not a bad ...

with one truck alone containing 1,736 artifacts on their way to a British auction house. Turkish officials’ most recent bust focused on a single mummy. The remains were stored in one of the ...

Telling history through things, whether it's a mummy's coffin or a credit card, is what museums are for and, because the British Museum has collected things from all over the globe, it's not a bad ...