As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and ...

The longstanding debate over the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece resurfaced following a recent publication by ...

The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems ...

I commented on Jahannah James' video about hunting for ancient tech in the British Museum, expressing my desire to someday ...

The theft of 2,000 gems at the British Museum began 20 to 25 years ago, according to George Osborne, the chairman of the trustees. This shocking news was revealed yesterday to the House of Commons ...

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London In 2021, British Museum officials were alerted to a potential thief in their ranks. That year, Ittai Gradel, a Denmark-based dealer in ancient gems ...

We’d do well to keep this in mind as the British Museum announces its intention to keep controversial objects on display. This comes after a leaked letter sent from culture secretary Oliver ...

Current and former employees have expressed shock that the museum hosted the event—which marks a day associated with the mass ...

When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers. The show, which ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

Charles Townley, one of Britain’s first great collectors of antiquities, was born in Lancashire in 1737. A distaff descendant of the aristocratic Howard family, he was educated mostly in France ...

The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...