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David Batty

Dorset auction house withdraws Egyptian human skulls from sale

View of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford
The University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum was founded by the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers in 1884. Photograph: Martin Bache/Alamy

An auction house has withdrawn 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls from sale after an MP said selling them would perpetuate the atrocities of colonialism.

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Afrikan reparations, believes the sale of human remains for any purposes should be outlawed, adding that the trade was “a gross violation of human dignity”.

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