New fronts have opened up in the war of cultural restitution, raising complex ethical and legal questions as some argue ...
Since 2017, only 27 objects have been returned to African countries ... and the British Museum’s former keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities was suspected to have stolen or damaged more ...
among them the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum in London and the Zodiac Ceiling in the Louvre in Paris, returned to the ...
In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...
The British Museum has regularly faced criticism in recent decades over its right to hold onto the treasures of antiquity it houses ... and plaques from the West African Kingdom of Benin dating ...
Filmmaker and Star Wars creator George Lucas is planning to open a museum dedicated to narrative art. But what is narrative ...
The Minister of State for East African Community Affairs, James Magode Ikuya, appreciated the restoration of the Museum ... and Antiquities Doreen Katusiime (M) and the Country Director British ...
In a conversation with Observer, the art lawyer shines a light on the complexities of institutional disputes, the ...
Controversy over whether it was disrupted by an Aryan invasion may now be discredited, but the debate over Indus ancestry and ...
That’s right, folks – this unassuming museum is home to a whopping 24,000 objects from around the world. It’s like someone took a magical shrink ray to the Louvre, the British Museum, and a dozen ...
Algeria retreated inward after two especially difficult chapters in its history: A brutal eight-year revolution ended French ...