British Museum to close on key day in summer – but it won’t say why - Exclusive: Speculation that the closure is related to French president Emmanuel Macron’s state visit as 18,000 visitors face disap ...

The British Museum is appealing to the public in its efforts to recover some of the 2,000 artifacts it believes were stolen from its collections.. On Tuesday the museum said it has launched a ...

The British Museum — one of the most visited museums in the world — acknowledged last week that items were missing, stolen or damaged from its collection, including “gold jewelry and gems of ...

The British Museum launched a public hotline on Tuesday asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artefacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewellery.

The British Museum is full of priceless plunder. Most of its exhibits were obtained when the British Empire covered almost a quarter of the world’s land, including large chunks of Africa, North ...

The British Museum would not comment on the man being questioned. The PA news agency said the items, which include gold jewellery, gems of semi-precious stones and glass, were taken before 2023 ...

The British Museum was founded in 1753 to house the collection of 71,000 items bequeathed by the traveller and collector Hans Sloane. The present building in Bloomsbury has been the museum’s ...