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The findings come amid reports that the British Museum has moved closer to a landmark deal with Athens that could see the artefacts returned

The museum's chairman - former Tory austerity Chancellor George Osborne - has been engaged in negotiations over a possible deal with the Greek authorities for the 2,500-year-old cultural treasures

George Powell and Layton Davies were jailed for more than 18 years after failing to report their find and handing over just three ‘valueless’ coins out of a 1,100-year-old collection from the reign of King Alfred

Analysis of over 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites revealed that pottery-making methods spread great distances in a short amount of time due to social customs being passed down. Read on for details:

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war scenes and trees, these rock carvings add to the bounty of detailed stone panels excavated from the 1840s onwards, many of…

Germany ‘played a dark role’ in colonialism, the Foreign Minister said

Artefacts looted in 19th century by UK soldiers and sold on, with many more still held by the British Museum

Germany has handed over 20 Benin Bronzes from its museums to Nigeria, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday, making it the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to their African homeland.

Three 2,500-year-old pieces will be ‘donated’ to Greece’s Archbishop Ieronymos II amid wider conversation about future of Parthenon marbles held by Britain