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Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in the early bronze age

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the University of Tübingen and I have discovered that wine was also enjoyed by the common folk, independent of upper-class…

The Conversation

'Exceptional' hoard of 800 Iron Age artifacts found mysteriously burned and buried in UK field

An Iron Age hoard discovered in England is on a "kind of scale and size that is exceptional for Britain and probably even Europe."

LiveScience

Tate Modern at 25: ‘It utterly changed the face of London’

It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled shark – and despite financial pressures, there can be little doubt about the gallery’s seismic impact

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British Museum is right to keep Parthenon marbles, says new trustee

Historian Dr Tiffany Jenkins is one of the lineup of new appointees that has raised cultural and historical hackles

The Guardian - UK

Claudia Winkleman ‘deeply honoured’ to join British Museum’s board of trustees

Historian Tom Holland and BBC Radio 4’s Martha Kearney have also become trustees.

Evening Standard

British Museum tops UK attractions list, but the effects of the pandemic still linger on

Official figures have revealed that the British Museum was – for the second year in a row – the UK’s most-visited attraction in 2024. While visitor numbers for cultural attractions are rising, however, the sector remains fragile.

Euronews

4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tape

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

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Visitor numbers plunge at London art museums as Tate galleries lose 2.7 million in five years

Visitor numbers at Tate galleries have plunged by over 30 per cent since 2019

Evening Standard

UK attractions still lagging behind pre-Covid visitor numbers as tourists stay away

Exclusive: All the top 10 sights are in or very close to London

The Independent UK

Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists

The administrative tablets give a rare insight into ancient bureaucracy

The Independent UK

‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

The Guardian - UK

Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs

Remains brought to Britain as part of colonialism, such as Egyptian mummies, should be repatriated, a report says

The Guardian - UK

Big Easter Egg Hunt 2025 returns to London: Where to find the giant eggs

Eggs to be hidden in Chelsea, Canary Wharf, Marble Arch, Battersea Power Station, The Barbican, The British Museum and The Royal Albert Hall

Evening Standard

The true threat of business downtime

As humans we need our down time and deserve it, but that doesn’t mean your security can have some too.

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The Independent UK

Rare 13th century artefact found in muddy field to fetch more than £15,000 at auction

Experts believe the jewelled medieval bishop’s ring dates back to the late 12th or early 13th century

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s a poetry to her work’: why Lina Ghotmeh is the right person to remake one-third of the British Museum

The Beirut-born, Paris-based architect has beaten a list of top candidates to redesign the museum’s Western Range. It will be the latest in a series of compelling creations which ‘get all the senses engaged’

The Independent UK

Museums defend BP sponsorship despite backlash against cuts to climate change funding

The British Museum’s relationship with BP was decried as ‘untenable’ and ‘indefensible’

The Independent UK

New Utagawa Hiroshige exhibition at British Museum to display rare Japanese prints by renowned artist

Vast majority of prints on display have never been seen before with several being the only surviving examples in the world

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The Guardian - UK

Museums defend BP sponsorship after firm abandons climate targets

British Museum and Science Museum said BP’s decision to grow fossil fuel investment would not alter relationship

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Netherlands agrees to return 119 Benin statues to Nigeria

The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin bronze statues to Nigeria, the Dutch embassy in Abuja announced this week. It becomes the first European nation to do so after Germany. The majority of these 19th-century African sculptures, however, remain in France and the UK.

Evening Standard

Erdem Moralıoğlu: 'Tourist tax is crazy. We have to make London more attractive for shoppers'

Ahead of his London Fashion Week show, the designer talks to Dylan Jones about the capital’s fashion status, the Princess of Wales and why show season is ‘everything’

LiveScience

2,000-year-old spoon from Isle of Man may have been used in blood rituals for fortune telling

A mysterious bronze spoon unearthed on the Isle of Man is rare evidence of ancient ritual in Europe.

The Guardian - UK

Loving the British Museum, pots and all

Letters: Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s experience of the institution’s treasures

Evening Standard

I’m blind: from Big Ben to Lime Bikes, this is how London is for me

Navigating London can be chaotic at the best of times. Author Lucy Edwards shares what it’s like as a blind person, from the good (a touch tour of Westminster Abbey) to the bad (guide dog taxi refusals and delivery cyclists on the pavement)

The Guardian - UK

At 57, I went to the British Museum for the first time – and it left me rather cold

I found the history of the world there, told through the medium of pots. The orgy of earthenware was baffling, writes Adrian Chiles

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