The Latest Breaking News from the British Museum

A cyberattack caused by a former IT contractor forced the Biritsh Museum to close some exhibitions over the weekend.

The British Museum is partially closed to the public after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems

A recently dismissed contractor shut down several systems before being arrested, the museum said

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

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and functional.