Unique: Guardian research locates UK galleries hold more than 260,000 products of remains, often in sacrilegious ways
The huge number of overseas human remains held by UK museums is a shameful legacy of colonialism, with several items kept in ways that are sacrilegious, according to MPs and archaeologists.An investigation by
the Guardian found that UK museums hold more than 263,000 things of human remains from all over the world, consisting of whole skeletal systems, managed bodies, such as Egyptian mommies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair.
Source: The Guardian