In “Hew Locke, what have we here?”, visitors are asked to consider the legacy of empire and plunder in shaping museum ...
As a curator I bought works that today would be impossible under the UNESCO Treaty forbidding the acquisition of pieces with no solid pedigree. In the Sixties I hardly gave a thought to provenance ...
After publishing a definitive biography of Rodin, she went on to write about the underappreciated women who modeled for the ...
Replicas of the Piltdown Man, which was termed an unscrupulous hoax by British scientists, are on display at the American ...
Greece on Thursday returned a hoard of over 1,000 stolen ancient coins to Turkey in the first repatriation of its kind between the historic rivals and neighbours.
Chai Andrade is a 2024 graduate who majored in anthropology and earned a certificate in archaeology. Musslewhite is a senior ...
"He became the first designer of stature and the first to be regarded as the arbiter of fashion and style who shaped the ...
The British Museum declined to comment on the reports ... She added, "Despite extensive archival research, no such firman has been found. It is indeed difficult to call this document a translation ...
The original, seen by John Galt in Athens, was destroyed by the Greeks when they set fire to the archives of the Voivode in 1821." The British Museum Act 1963 prevents treasures from being legally ...
The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire ...