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The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of sculptures taken from the ancient site in Athens more than 200 years ago.

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the University of Tübingen and I have discovered that wine was also enjoyed by the common folk, independent of upper-class…

Official figures have revealed that the British Museum was – for the second year in a row – the UK’s most-visited attraction in 2024. While visitor numbers for cultural attractions are rising, however, the sector remains fragile.

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

Visitor numbers at Tate galleries have plunged by over 30 per cent since 2019

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The administrative tablets give a rare insight into ancient bureaucracy

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

Remains brought to Britain as part of colonialism, such as Egyptian mummies, should be repatriated, a report says