Greek customs find human skulls in luggage of US tourists

Police in Athens have charged two American tourists after they discovered six human sulls in their luggage as they travelled through an airport.

The two young travellers have been charged with desecrating the dead after officials at Athens international airport spotted the six skulls in their hand luggage at, authorities said.



'The skulls were found in a scanner check during a stop-over in Athens on their way back to the United States,' said a police official who requested anonymity. 'The coroner confirmed they were human skulls.'

According to reports, the tourists told police that they had bought the skulls in a souvenir shop on the island of Mykonos, off the south-east coast of Greece. They claimed that they had believed that the skulls were fake, the official said. The pair have been released pending their trial.