[happymellon]

You appear to be missing the part where these are not British scientists researching British remains in Britain.

Yes, the Americans and Australians should ask before taking British remains from Britain away for research in their labs. I don't see where the research is conducted but there isn't any mention of collaboration with the UK so this would involve exporting the remains.

[sokoloff]

Consistent with the precedent the British established with all of those Egyptian mummies?

I mean, I agree they need permission, but it’s at least a little ironic…

[samus]

Good example for why such rules were introduced. Although not perfectly applicable since there is no hope to locate an Egyptian mummy's heirs nowadays. Although we are quite sure that they would have disapproved.

[sokoloff]

> teeth of 235 individuals who were buried across 27 archaeological sites in England and Scotland from about 2,200 B.C. to A.D. 1853

Some (most?) of these remains have the same order of magnitude problem to find descendants as Egyptian mummies would.