Cleveland Museum to Return Prized Bronze Thought Looted From Turkey
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...
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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
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 ...
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Discover masterpieces and dig up secrets at the British Museum
From the private collection of Sir Hans Sloane in 1753, the British Museum has grown to become one of the world's most ...
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Can YOU decipher these symbols? Scientists are offering a $1 MILLION prize to anyone who can read this mysterious Indus Valley script
But it mysteriously declined and vanished and remained invisible for almost 4,000 years until its ruins were discovered by accident in the 1920s by British ... such as Ur in Mesopotamia, where ...
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Fired British Museum worker arrested after 'shutting down' museum computer systems
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 ...
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Tom Hanks writes letter backing rural war 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 ...