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Archaeological tests find no evidence of more human remains at Baalang site on Wadjemup
Archaeological investigations of 12 potential burial-like anomalies discovered l...
Giovanni Torre 15 May 2026
Vital step toward healing as ancestors returned home
The remains of 10 Indigenous Australian ancestors that were kept in Japanese ins...
Keira Jenkins 12 Jun 2025
Skulls kept at Sydney university returned to Papua New Guinea after 149 years away
A Sydney-based university museum has repatriated 16 human skulls to six villages...
Andrew Mathieson 6 Mar 2025
German museums hand over Torres Strait Islands ancestral remains
Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum col...
Indigenous ancestors returning home from Aotearoa
Six First Nations ancestors have been returned from New Zealand following a cult...
Callan Morse 29 Aug 2024
Data science shown to expedite return of ancestral Indigenous remains

The return of the ancestral human remains of Australian and other Indigenous peoples held in anthropological collections could be sped up using machine-based deep learning according to a new study led...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 16, 2024
Smithsonian returns Indigenous remains to Australia

The ancestral remains of 14 Indigenous people have been returned to Australia from the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC. A ceremony was held overnight in the US marking their repatr...

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Andrew Brown Dec 1, 2023
Ancestral remains returned from British museums

After years of negotiations, remains of 11 First Nations ancestors have been returned by two United Kingdom institutions. They include six ancestors repatriated from the Oxford Museum of Natural Histo...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Oct 5, 2023
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