On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

From the private collection of Sir Hans Sloane in 1753, the British Museum has grown to become one of the world's most ...

The museum says capacity is limited, with members and those who already hold tickets given priority. Fewer than 10 Iron Age helmets have been found in Britain, so the discovery delights experts.

A former British Museum employee has been arrested after allegedly breaking in and shutting down the museum's security and IT systems. The person - who had recently been fired - "trespassed" at ...

The Global Story. Stolen treasures: Scandal at the British Museum. Audio, 24 minutesThe Global Story Stolen treasures: Scandal at the British Museum ...

You might not expect a Hollywood superstar to take much interest in a tiny museum in a rural part of Wales. But Tom Hanks - star of films including Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Big - has ...

Without further ado, here are the best British movies on Prime Video ... My Policeman tells the story of a policeman and a museum curator in 1950s London who fall for one another despite ...

The British Museum is launching a new exhibition that explores the history of gladiatorial contests in Roman Britain. 'Gladiators of Britain', a British Museum Partnership Exhibition with ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages ...

The British Museum is reportedly planning a "rebrand" alongside its newly renovated building, stoking fears that the iconic institution will "go woke". You might not think of a museum as having a ...