Artnet

Looters Beware: The British Museum Is Leading an International Task Force Fighting the Illicit Trade in Egyptian Antiquities

The British Museum is taking on a new role: international watchdog for the trade of Egyptian and Nubian artifacts. The museum is employing a team of curators solely dedicated to spotting looted ...
University College London (UCL)

British discovery shows humans made fire 350,000 earlier than thought

A collection of artefacts showing the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire nearly 350,000 years ...
Hyperallergic

The Sun Is Setting on the British Museum

One of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in London (photo by Helen Simonssonvia via The large-scale theft of cultural objects from the British Museum by one of its employees, and ...
Artnet

The British Museum Is Throwing a Gala to Match the Met—and Not Everyone’s Impressed

As public purse strings tighten, major U.K. museums are racing to outdo each other with ever more splashy fundraising schemes. The British Museum is the latest to turn heads this week with the ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The World of Stonehenge’ Review: Ancient Mysteries in London

The circle at Stonehenge, in England, was raised around the same time, 2,500 B.C., as the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Its alignment suggests that it was almost certainly a solar ...
Forbes

The British Museum: The Problematic Yet Enduring Appeal of Antiquities

In London last month, my first stop was to visit the British Museum. Going there seemed an urgent priority. My thinking was that in such turbulent contemporary times, it is reassuring to see the ...