The British Museum has settled a dispute with Canadian writer Yilin Wang, agreeing to reinstate her translations of Chinese-language poems by early-20th-century feminist revolutionary and poet Qiu Jin ...

The British Museum is known for housing a vast collection of artifacts from across the globe. But what was the way some of these treasures were acquired? That’s where things get a little complicated.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the museum, the tabots are "believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on Earth, the mercy seat ...

Embattled British Museum director Hartwig Fischer has announced that he will resign, rather than wait until next year as he previously said. The move comes just nine days after the museum revealed ...

The British Museum, home to the largest collection of artifacts in the world, has fired a staff member on suspicion of stealing and damaging items including gold, gems and centuries-old glass. Items ...

A translator whose work was used by the British Museum without her permission won a victory this week after reaching a settlement with the institution, following two months of negotiations and online ...

The so-called “Elgin Marbles” are back in the news. Talks between Greece and the UK have resumed over the future of the large pieces of marble frieze taken from the Parthenon in Athens by British peer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British museum board members It was with surprisingly little fanfare that Apple guru Jony Ive was appointed to the board of the ...

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. “We have already ...

The British Museum is seeking the public's help as it works to locate and recover thousands of missing artifacts believed to have been stolen from their collections. After announcing in August that ...

UK experts visit Lagos railway museum, seek collaboration with NRC to preserve historic locomotives and strengthen Nigeria’s ...