Telling history through things, whether it's a mummy's coffin or a credit card, is what museums are for and, because the British Museum has collected things from all over the globe, it's not a bad ...

The decision has garnered a variety of opinions. Unlike others, the British Museum of London said it "hasn't banned the use of the term 'mummy' and it is still in use across our galleries" but ...

Today's object: Mummy of Hornedjitef British Museum Mummy and coffins of a priest who lived over 1,000 years after Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great. Weekly theme: Making us human Looking at the ...

Having accidentally nicked a mummy of their own from outside the British Museum, he then comes up with a plan: they'll do their own mummy unrolling in the pub. Fagin is freaked out and locks himself ...

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how ...

The university said the mummy was obtained on the mistaken assumption ... Reports suggest the British Museum is at "an advanced stage" in negotiations to return the Parthenon Sculptures - also ...

Two artificial big toes – one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy – may have been the world’s earliest functional prosthetic ... the Greville Chester artificial toe on display in ...