British Museum
Visitors to UK attractions increasing but still below pre-Covid levels
Figures show many still ‘out of the habit’ of visiting museums, galleries, cathedrals, castles and country houses
Mark Brown
18, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM
Westminster Abbey agrees ‘in principle’ to return sacred tablet to Ethiopia
Carved wooden tabot has been at Abbey since British forces looted it at Battle of Maqdala in 1868
Lanre Bakare
19, Feb, 2024 @2:32 PM
British Museum’s Instagram flooded with calls to return Easter Island statue
Chilean social media users target institution, forcing it at one point to close comments on posts
Charis McGowan Rapa Nui
18, Feb, 2024 @12:00 PM
Legion: Life in the Roman Army review – ‘More than just a blood and guts orgy of military might’
British Museum, London
From monsters to messiahs, from rebels to republics, from sex workers to chilled-out lovers, this wildly enjoyable blockbuster delivers a Rome for everyone
From monsters to messiahs, from rebels to republics, from sex workers to chilled-out lovers, this wildly enjoyable blockbuster delivers a Rome for everyone
Jonathan Jones
29, Jan, 2024 @4:59 PM
‘Their heads were nailed to the trees’: what was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?
It was the defeat that traumatised Rome, leaving 15,000 soldiers slaughtered in a German field. As a major show explores this horror and more, our writer finds traces of the fallen by a forest near the Rhine
Charlotte Higgins
29, Jan, 2024 @5:00 AM
British Museum and V&A to lend Ghana looted gold and silver
Objects to go on show at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi as part of Asante king’s silver jubilee celebrations
Matthew Weaver
25, Jan, 2024 @11:36 AM
British Museum reveals bumper haul of treasures found by the public
Finds reported to England’s Portable Antiquities Scheme include medieval bone rosary bead and 3,000-year-old gold dress fastener
Esther Addley
23, Jan, 2024 @7:53 PM
The Guardian view on archaeology and writing: the world-building power of small thoughts | Editorial
Editorial: A cold Roman soldier is promised new socks, while his commander’s wife invites her peers to party: mundane texts offer priceless historical insights
Editorial
07, Jan, 2024 @6:30 PM
Blair considered loan of Parthenon marbles to help London Olympics bid
Then PM was advised to ‘encourage’ British Museum to agree long-term loan in return for Greek support
Caroline Davies and Kevin Rawlinson
29, Dec, 2023 @12:01 AM
Greece would offer major treasures to UK for Parthenon marbles, minister says
Culture minister Lina Mendoni pledges to ‘fill the void’ at British Museum should ancient sculptures be returned to Athens
Helena Smith in Athens
27, Dec, 2023 @7:19 PM
Culture clash: when the British Museum accepts funding from oil firms | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an article by Charlotte Higgins about the management of the institution and sponsorship by BP
26, Dec, 2023 @4:42 PM
Jonathan Tubb obituary
Archaeologist and keeper of the British Museum’s Middle East department who transformed its Levantine collection
James Fraser
24, Dec, 2023 @12:50 PM
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