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When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...
It’s been just over a year since Nicholas Cullinan took up his post as the new director of the British Museum in London and ...
London’s British Museum has recovered some of the 2,000 treasures stolen from its storerooms after a bungled internal probe that led to the resignation of its embattled director.
What hidden clues to ancient high technology might be sitting in plain sight? This video explores artifacts in the British Museum that show surprising precision, unusual tool marks, and design ...
In a separate British Museum statement yesterday, Jones offered assurances that “we have taken steps to improve security and are now confident that a theft of this kind can never happen again”.
The British Museum received £47.8 million ($61m) in revenue and a £20 million ($25m) capital grant in aid from the governmental Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport during the 2022/ ...
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 ...
The head of trustees at the British Museum said Saturday that the museum has recovered some of the 2,000 items believed to have been stolen by an insider, ...
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, contacted the august London institution with ...
British Museum leadership and many museums in Europe say, look, they have a good home here. People can see them, and they're well cared for, and they won't disappear.
LONDON — Over the years, many have tried to persuade the British Museum to return the Elgin marbles to Greece. But Roger Michel has something the others didn’t: A life-size head of a horse ...