Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

On July 7, 1779, during the height of the Revolutionary War, the British army set the town of Fairfield ablaze. During the morning hours of the day, Colonial army members at a fort at Black Rock ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors to the British Museum this week could be forgiven for thinking it was business as usual. In the museum’s Egyptian galleries, tourists jostled to get a closer look at the Rosetta Stone ...

The British Museum launched a public hotline on Tuesday asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artefacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewellery.

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 ...

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/ ...

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.

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 ...