The Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney is home to Australia's largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. Nick-D via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 As curators around the ...

The mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian woman named Asru have been on display at the Manchester Museum since 1825. Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Should museums display ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Penn Museum has updated its policies regarding the handling of human remains, and ...

There are stories in the human bones at the American Museum of Natural History. They tell of lives lived — some mere decades ago, others in past centuries — in cultures around the world. But the vast ...

After a two-year ethical review and a leadership shakeup in April, the Mütter Museum has committed to continuing its display of human remains with a new focus on giving visitors deeper context into ...

Mother of a suicide victim, Christopher Todd Erick, claimed that she saw her son's remains displayed in a Las Vegas museum, sparking shock, fear, and widespread attention online. According to Kim ...

Spanning 16,000 square feet, the exhibition features an extraordinary collection of real human specimens—including 20 whole-body plastinates—offering guests an unparalleled journey beneath the skin.

Word spread among the Alutiiq children in Larsen Bay, Alaska: An anthropologist from Washington, D.C., would pay them 10 cents to find him human bones. Ales Hrdlicka, a Smithsonian anthropologist, ...