The Latest Breaking News from British Museum

Analysis of over 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites revealed that pottery-making methods spread great distances in a short amount of time due to social customs being passed down. Read on for details:

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war scenes and trees, these rock carvings add to the bounty of detailed stone panels excavated from the 1840s onwards, many of…

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century.

Pope Francis has decided to give back to Greece the three fragments of Parthenon marbles that the Vatican Museums have held for centuries

Spiderman and Thor made an appearance

Move to see restitution of 116 historical objects taken by British during the sacking of Benin in 1897

Chair of the museum, George Osborne, says it no longer wants to be a ‘destination for climate protest’

Cabinet ministers from the Greek and British governments have discussed Greece’s bid to get the Parthenon Sculptures back from London

Former chancellor George Osborne holding ‘secret talks’ with Greek prime minister