The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

Academics at the University of Oxford drank from a cup made from a human skull for decades, with members of Worcester College using it at official dinners until 2015. The macabre artifact, a ...

The academics at Worcester College used this unique chalice, made of a human skull, until a decade ago to drink wine and pass ...

itself enriched by the proceeds of centuries of colonial violence and extraction, swilling drink out of a human skull that may have belonged to an enslaved person and has been so little valued ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

wrote about the discovery in a new book which explores the violent colonial history of looted human remains. He alleges the skull used to be used for drinking wine, until it began to leak and was ...