The Latest Breaking News from the British Museum

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The Louvre’s proposed two-tier fees are a better way to fund museums than iffy corporate sponsorship deals

New show comes more than half a century after the original Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition opened at the British Museum in 1972

Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?

Greece’s conservative government has nominated Parliament Speaker Constantine Tassoulas, a leading advocate for the return of disputed Parthenon sculptures from the British Museum, to become the country’s next president

This wafer-thin wooden tablet from a first-century Roman fort in the U.K. includes a heartfelt birthday party invitation.

Tourists visiting world-famous attraction were forced to evacuate after a fire alarm on Friday afternoon

400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to palaeontologists, but an extraordinary, enormous and near-complete skull is helping us uncover an obscure episode in the evolutionary history of these…

Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art