The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their African land of origin ...

WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says.  The former ...

Watercolour artist's impressions have revealed the vision for a bronze sculpture memorial to Manx aviators who left the ...

Calls to return the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria have been branded “weak” by Britain’s former anti-racism tsar. Sir Trevor ...

Ex-equalities boss Sir Trevor Phillips says artefacts like the Elgin Marbles or Benin Bronzes should not be returned ...

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...

British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala ... Later, the Venetian admiral Francesco Morosini tried to remove sculptures in order to take them back to Venice. The pulley he was using ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

Progress in the negotiations for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece was reported at a recent conference organized by the Greek community at the London School of Economics ...

Case of artefacts looted by British soldiers is ‘more complex than a simple matter of right or wrong’, warns Sir Trevor ...

It's arguably the best museum in all of London. What's more, it's free to visit. From the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Sculptures to Mesopotamian objects, the British Museum is a history buff's ...