British Museum

The glass roof of the Duveen Gallery in the British Museum which houses the Parthenon Marbles is dripping, with water collecting next to the sculptures, according to a report by Skai TV on Friday.

Museum officials had placed on Friday morning absorbing paper over the water and plastic signs to warn visitors of the slippery floor.

Some fragments of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus may have been smuggled to the British Museum in 1857, but the 2,000-year-old structure's ruins in the Aegean city of Bodrum have been drawing many visitors.

Researchers have discovered the oldest figurative tattoos in the world on the upper arms of two ancient Egyptian mummies, the British Museum said on March 1.

A man accidentally started a social media war between two of London’s biggest museums.

During The Natural History Museum’s Ask a Curator event on Twitter, one man had this pressing query he needed answering:

The time to return the Parthenon Marble to Greece is near, according to Alexis Mantheakis, chairman of the International Parthenon Sculptures Action Committee.

An extremely rare and precious ivory was found by archaeologists in their work on the Rusokastro medieval fortress near the Black Sea port town in Burgas, reported BNR..

The icon is two-sided with the images of Archangel Gabriel and St.Basil the Great.

The reverse side pictures two crosses - posterior and processional. The images are part of the Annunciation scene.

Not yet a week since the triggering of article 50, and already hope of cordial negotiations seems optimistic. At the weekend, amid early jostling over the post-Brexit fate of Gibraltar, former Tory leader Michael Howard implied that one way to resolve that situation could be a war with Spain.

A Guardian newspaper columnist has suggested Britain should return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece as part of the Brexit deal.

A Guardian newspaper columnist has suggested Britain should return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece as part of the Brexit deal.

The Ministry of Culture and Sports has denied a report published in Britain's Independent newspaper Tuesday that it had called for the return of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, from the British Museum as a symbolic gesture against anti-democratic forces that seek "the dissolution of Europe."