[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.