Bayeux Tapestry to go on show at the British Museum as it returns to England for first time in 900 years - Delight as ‘one of ...

The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, will go on display in London for the first time, on ...

London’s British Museum has recovered some of the 2,000 treasures stolen from its storerooms after a bungled internal probe that led to the resignation of its embattled director.

One culture the museum doesn’t illuminate, though, is that of the city in which it is found. The British Museum, by its existence, shows us that London was once the capital of a huge empire that ...

For more than 150 years, the British Museum has kept 11 sacred Ethiopian tabots, or replicas of the Ark of the Covenant, quietly to itself. Latest U.S.

T he British Museum has solicited the public’s help in finding an estimated 2,000 artifacts that had been stolen from the institution’s collection over the course of several years.The famed ...

The British Museum’s digital catalog already includes some 4.5 million items. Over the next five years, an additional 1.3 million items would be added to that total, Jones said.