An auction house has withdrawn 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls from sale after an MP said their sale would perpetuate the atrocities of colonialism.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on African Reparations, said the sale of human remains for any purpose should be banned, adding that the trade was “a flagrant violation of human dignity.”
The skulls of 10 men, five women and three people of uncertain sex were cataloged by Semley Auctioneers in Dorset, with a guide price of £200-300 for each lot.
They were originally collected by the Victorian British soldier and archaeologist Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, founder of the University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum in 1884.
Here is the full Guardian storyindirectly via Samir Varma.
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