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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • This is pretty shoddy reporting

    UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair.

    So, to be clear, they aren’t distinguishing between an entire mummy and a lock of hair.

    37,000 items of human remains are known to originate from overseas

    Experts said the findings contradict a claim made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in its 2005 guidance that said “the vast majority of human remains in UK museums are of UK origin

    37,000 / 263,000 ≈ 0.14 or 14%. Am I wrong to think that 86% qualifies as a “vast majority”?