Persian ruler Nadir Shah defeated Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah, captured Delhi, and carried the Kohinoor diamond back with ...

Photo: Jason Mandella, Collection of the Martha Diamond Trust Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and ...

Pakistan’s far north holds some of the world’s highest peaks and has a proud cultural identity, but until now international ...

The Great Exhibition took place from ... Another diamond, the Daria-i-Noor, was also exhibited, and now resides in Tehran. Mineral water cabinet: Royal Pump Room Museum, Harrogate I chanced ...

Previously, this crown was placed on the coffin of the late Queen ... keeping with royal tradition while avoiding controversy over the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a contentious colonial-era gem embedded ...

British MP urges UK government to apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre which took place during the British rule on ...

The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, and two throne chairs are part of the Royal Collection in London. These items were acquired after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and symbolize the ...

Taking center stage is the Winston Red, a rare diamond with a Fancy red color grading. James D. Tiller and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution Starting today, visitors at the National Museum ...

The official, speaking on background, said that roughly 80% of the 70 employees of the Institute of Museum and Library Services were placed immediately on administrative leave. “The notification ...

When president Donald Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Keith E. Sonderling, descended upon the offices of the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) at 955 L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, D ...

Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s order looking to control the “divisive narratives” at Smithsonian museums and federal ... America great in the first place,” Moore said.