A charity worker was shocked to find an ornate jug among donations, which she hailed as an "antique" after tracking down the item to The British Museum website. Cloé shared a clip of the incredible ...

Go to the British Museum website and you may notice a small change. As of Wednesday, not only can you now look through the 260,000 exhibits currently on display at the museum but you will also find ...

Parts of some missing objects have probably been sold to scrap metal merchants, museum administrators say. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Four months after the British Museum fired a curator ...

In 2020, Danish antiquities dealer Dr Ittai Gradel began to suspect an eBay seller he had been buying from was a thief who was stealing from the British Museum. More than two years later, the museum ...

This caption in the British Museum’s Africa galleries summaries briefly the political history leading up to the sacking of Benin City in 1897 by British forces. Although certainly constrained by the ...

Greece’s culture minister Lina Mendoni wrote a blistering commentary in response to the ongoing scandal at the British Museum, where it has come to light that more than 1,500 items from the collection ...

The British Museum hosts its inaugural fundraising ball on Saturday, a glitzy event that has been touted by many observers as London's answer to New York's Met Gala. The museum, which boasts one of ...