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 ...

The Royal British Columbia Museum offers visitors a comprehensive introduction to the region's history and culture. Exhibits include tribal artifacts from the First Nations, natural history ...

Egyptian campaigners have demanded its return, saying that the British Museum's holding of the stone is a symbol of "Western cultural violence against Egypt". Elsewhere in Africa, Nigeria has ...

Margaritas Schinas, a former European Commission vice-president, tells the Prime Minister to ‘open a new era of mutual ...

The British Museum has unveiled design concepts from the five shortlisted architecture teams for the overhaul of more than a third of its gallery spaces and behind-the-scenes areas Unveiled yesterday ...

The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

See all the objects from the Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects. Click on any link to find out more about an object, zoom in on the image and listen again or download the programme.

A deal to return the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece is "still some distance" away, the chairman of the British Museum has said. George Osborne, the former Tory chancellor, was responding to ...

It was a big day. Oscar Wilde has to be up there; he used the Round Reading Room of the British Museum, which we just reopened to the public this summer. Best thing a cabbie has said to you?

A Calgary army reserve officer was killed in an ice-climbing accident in eastern British Columbia over the holidays. Maj. Dave Peabody died while off duty on Dec. 26 in Kootenay National Park, the ...

India and France partnered to transform New Delhi's North and South Blocks into the Yuga Yugeen Bharat National Museum.