The opening of the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum has revived claims that the Rosetta Stone should return to Egypt.

The first study granted access to artifacts in British museums for radiocarbon dating has examined the transition between the Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. One of ...

The British Museum released its annual tally of archaeological items found by the public — and the newest list is record-setting, the museum said this week. Overall, 53,490 archaeological discoveries ...

Goddesses, saints, demons: “Revered and Feared. Feminine Power in Art and Belief” is a collaborative exhibition created by Madrid’s La Caixa Foundation and London’s British Museum, bringing together ...

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—a ...

Few institutions hold as much global prestige and controversy as the British Museum. Behind its grand façade lies a ...

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the British ...

Hartwig Fischer, a German art historian, will be the director of a new museum of world cultures in Saudi Arabia. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Last summer, Hartwig Fischer resigned as the ...

Nigeria’s stunning new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) finds itself in the crosshairs of local power politics.