Over 100 precious Benin Bronzes have been returned to Nigeria from a Dutch museum in a landmark repatriation agreement.

The British Museum has come under fresh pressure to hand over its Benin Bronzes after the Netherlands returned more than 100 of the artefacts to Nigeria.

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was discovered in ...

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 ...

French president targets non-EU citizens to help fund ‘special area’ for Mona Lisa amid warnings museum is in ‘deplorable state’ British tourists will have to pay more to visit the Louvre ...

A disgruntled insider appears to have been behind a security incident at the British Museum, which forced the 270-year-old institution to partially close its doors over the weekend of 25 and 26 ...

The British Museum said it had closed a number of exhibits after a fired IT contractor "shut down" some of its systems in one of several unrelated incidents targeting European museums on Saturday. The ...

The British Museum is mostly free, but you still need a ticket. Unfortunately, the famous institution was forced to partially close last week after a former employee attacked its IT infrastructure, ...

The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some onsite IT systems. The ...

World-famous British Museum suffers days-long cyberattack The attack was caused by a former IT contractor Exhibitions were closed over the weekend, but have since reopened A former employee of the ...

The British Museum had to close some of its doors to visitors Friday, after a former employee allegedly succeeded in shutting down elements of its IT system. The BBC reports that the museum’s ...