THE warped world of body brokers, where people who acquire and sell human cadavers, has become a multi-million-pound industry ...

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Should museums display mummified human remains? One institution in England has decided to ask visitors for their take on this ethical dilemma. The Manchester Museum is encouraging guests to share ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pre-human fossil "Lucy" from Ethiopia is on display in Europe for the first time. The exhibition at the National Museum in ...