The Grand Egyptian Museum spans an astonishing 500,000 square meters, twice the size of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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 ...

What if the Titanic’s infamous sinking wasn’t just about an iceberg? For over a century, whispers of a 3,600-year-old ...

Tattoos have been significant in several ancient cultures. The British Museum unveiled two ancient Egyptian mummies in 2018 with markings on them that previously went undetected, according to the ...

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

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The museum says that a recently dismissed contractor was was able to get back into the building and shut down several systems chrisdorney via Adobe Stock The British Museum is once again ...

The British Museum said it had closed a number of exhibits after a fired IT contractor "shut down" some of its systems in one of several unrelated incidents targeting European museums on Saturday. The ...

The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems ...

The British Museum Says It Is Partly Closed After a Fired Employee Shut Down IT Systems LONDON (AP) — The British Museum, the country's most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to ...

A former British Museum employee has been arrested after allegedly breaking in and shutting down the museum's security and IT systems. The person - who had recently been fired - "trespassed" at ...