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 ...

The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, will go on display in London for the first time, on ...

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

Of the missing 1,500 items, just over 350 had been returned, a British Museum spokeswoman said in an interview. Another 300 items had been identified, but those items had not been recovered.