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As I was reading about the Valley of the Kings again, I wonder why that was actually legal.

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[โ€“] Vanth@reddthat.com 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're not the only one asking this. Lots of museums are putting in place policies against exhibiting human remains and working on repatriating remains they do have.

Things to websearch if interested, UK Human Tissue Act of 2004, and keywords along the lines of "museum policies human remains".

[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Technically taking human remains isn't grave robbing, it's body snatching. Grave robbing is taking artifacts like jewellery.

[โ€“] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

So when Lord Carnarvon sent Howard Carter into the Valley of the Kings with his team...

...that was the Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

[โ€“] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you, that helps me a lot. :-)