Pressure is growing on Germany and the UK to return to Africa skulls taken as trophies and for discredited racial research more than a century ago, writes the BBC's Damian Zane. A Tanzanian based ...

Ancient skulls pillaged by German invaders from East Africa have been traced to living relatives, thanks to DNA analysis, Berlin's Museums authority (SPK) said Tuesday. The discovery of ...

So why, within its many hundreds of clauses, does the treaty refer to the decapitated head of an African anti-colonial hero? Chief Mkwawa's skull now sits on a plinth, protected by a glass box ...

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They were searching for ancient human remains in a network of caves near Johannesburg, South Africa. With only headlamps ... teeth and fragments of skull belonging to a Homo naledi child.

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

The skulls originating from Africa were from Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nigeria. Among the African skulls, two from Congo were positioned one on top of the other ...

The Berlin museum authority said Wednesday that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa after having researched their origin for several years.