New fronts have opened up in the war of cultural restitution, raising complex ethical and legal questions as some argue ...

Ethiopia lodged a claim in 2007 for the return of the antiquities ... 19th Century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, whose home in the South African city of Cape Town is now a museum.

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 ...

“The Museum must acknowledge Britain’s role in the trade in enslaved African people in order to serve the British public, who deserve to understand their own history,” the letter continue ...

Now some of these beautiful Easter egg-sized objects are in London's British Museum. The eggs were found ... the Mediterranean and North Africa traded ostrich eggs up to 5,000 years ago, in ...

One is currently housed in the British Museum and the other in the Cyprus Museum. The Antiquities Department is packing the artefacts and will bring them back to Cyprus over the next few days ...

Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organisation said in October it had set a two-month deadline for the British Museum to allow the public display in Iran of the so-called Cyrus Cylinder, linked to the ...