A Trustee of the British Museum described Duveen's attitude at the time: "Duveen lectured and harangued us, and talked the most hopeless nonsense about cleaning old works of art. I suppose he has ...

In the grimy British Museum in London last week ... began hunting for someone who knew about 50-year-old gramophones. Contact us at [email protected] ...

Politicians are calling for Welsh items housed at the museum, such as the 4,000-year-old ... of the British Empire, that argument has been severely undermined by this saga. It is high time we ...

Although British newspapers had long reported that Mr. Higgs was the curator at the center of the scandal, Tuesday’s hearing was the first time that the museum had named him. When the museum ...

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, but admitted that the 264-year-old ...

When the British Museum ... stepping back in time, and the huge stone busts of figures like Ramesses and Amenhotep are breathtaking. Only got an hour to visit? The British Museum is huge.

In 2002, a visitor lifted a twenty-five-hundred-year-old Greek head from a ... the annual dinner of the trustees of the British Museum was held, for the first time in anyone’s memory, in the ...

The British Museum has experienced thefts before. In 2002, it launched a security review after a 2,500-year-old Greek statue was ... with it undetected. At the time, the museum said no permanent ...

ATHENS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The British Museum has lent for the first time in 250 years an ancient ... The 2,500-year-old hydria, signed by Athenian potter Meidias, is decorated with red figures ...

The British Museum ... Yard has asked the museum not to for now. It is understood the missing items were taken before this year and over a "significant" period of time. Some of them ended up ...

A trustee of the British Museum described Duveen’s attitude at the time: ‘Duveen lectured and harangued us, and talked the most hopeless nonsense about cleaning old works of art. I suppose he ...