A Sumerian palace discovered in Iraq dates back 4,500 years and helps to understand one of the first civilizations in human ...

A recently discovered palace in modern-day Iraq dates back 4,500 years and is said to contain the key to understanding the ...

It's often claimed online that the British Museum in London would have nothing left to show if it returned every artefact ...

It has around four times as much as the next most prevalent countries, including Iraq and Italy. Some 66,000 artefacts come from Greece, according to the online database. The British Museum said ...

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Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the ...

Pope Francis has disclosed that two assassination plots targeting his historic 2021 visit to Iraq were thwarted, thanks to intelligence provided by British agencies and rapid action from Iraqi police.

Despite previous excavations led by the English archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard and then by British archaeologist Sir ...

Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.

The British Museum has unveiled design concepts from the five shortlisted architecture teams for the overhaul of more than a third of its gallery spaces and behind-the-scenes areas Unveiled yesterday ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

In the ninth through seventh centuries BC, the kings of Assyria forged the greatest empire the region had known. Its armies conquered lands from Egypt, the eastern Mediterranean coast, and parts of ...