The Meroë Head, one of the most important surviving portraits of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, is explored in a new Asahi Shimbun Display at the British Museum together with the fascinating ...

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

Rise and Fall, brings four ancient civilisations back to life… In an age troubled by pandemics, autocracy and rapid change, a ...

Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford, a curator, historian and filmmaker who focuses on African culture, has been appointed director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Casely-Hayford ...