From Rome to the Ottomans, the Mongols to the British, this video breaks down how the world’s greatest empires rose and why ...

Former prime minister Liz Truss, historian Dr David Starkey and Sir John Redwood are among 34 signatories to a letter ...

Medieval people would have interacted with the embroidered players, giving them voice and enabling them to join the ...

The 230 foot long embroidered tapestry, which depicts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, will go on display at the ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...

Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

The next morning, which was clear, cool, and sunny, I was out of my hotel at 7:45 a.m. and, when it opened at 8:00 a.m., in the lobby of the museum dedicated to the Erzurum Congress in July-August ...

The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems ...

The museum, filled with treasures from around the world, is also facing growing pressure to return artifacts taken from other countries during the period of the British Empire – notably the ...