[SunkenCiv]

Full subtitle: "Bones and skulls from ancient settlements will be reburied and lost to science under controversial legislation that threatens to cripple archeological research"

Archaeologists from Durham University clean a Roman stone sarcophagus uncovered at a dig in Newcastle city centre. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA/PA

[JimSEA]

Will Chedder Man’s immediate family be present for his reburial?

[bgill]

IOW they can’t just dig up bodies only to leave them laying around forgotten in the some museum storage unit for a couple dozen years until some intern stumbles back upon them. Two years plus an extention is plenty of time to do whatever they need done. Be respectful of the body and bury it back where the person wanted to be however many years ago.

[ccmay]

Those are some of my ancestors being dug up, and I don't give a whistle about it. As C.S. Lewis said, "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." And it is a pile of filthy rags by comparison.

If archaeology can add to our knowledge of history, culture, or medicine, then they are welcome to dig up even my 33rd great grandfather Charlemagne and parade him around the laboratories and museums of the world.

[mewzilla]

Burials, excavations, and the Ministry of Justice

[JoeProBono]

Bids for Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin top $25,000

[Outlaw Woman]

Just another way to keep future generations from learning history. A worldwide phenomenon...I'm thinking the U.S. here.

That's the tactic of communists......obliterate, rewrite, bury history. And if this law wasn't passed with that motive, then the people who passed it are just plain stupid and beyond hope. Either way the end result is the same. People remain ignorant about crucial historical facts.

Thanks for the ping(s) I thoroughly enjoy them.

[dangerdoc]

Who says they can’t build nice sealed metal crypts in the museum basement?

[Cacique]

This is either multiculturalist cretins or muslim fanatics. Either way they want all pursuit of knowledge stopped in order to be able to control it.

[colorado tanker]

What do you mean they have to put you back??!!