London (CNN) — An auction house in England has withdrawn human remains, including shrunken heads and ancestral skulls, from sale following an outcry. The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire ...
In early October, The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, listed several lots of human remains for sale, including skulls from west Africa and shrunken heads from South America. They were ...
A British auction house is facing criticism for selling 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls. The skulls come from the collections of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, a 19th-century British general.