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Britain’s museums face a sinister new threat
Daily Telegraph· 10 hours agoIn Igbo culture for women to view such masks, and the rituals they were used for is taboo. Now a British museum, indeed a British university, has decided...
Second museum may keep ‘males only’ artefacts from public view
Daily Telegraph· 4 hours agoMore artefacts may be hidden from view to respect the gender conventions of other cultures,...
Thief at the British Museum: a 'gripping exposé'
The Week via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe real crime is the museum's 'appalling handling' of the thefts. | Credit: Shutterstock / Neil Hall The scandal behind the British Museum's missing...
‘Michelangelo: The Last Decades’ Review: Drawings of a Seasoned Master at the British Museum
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoThe museum considers the last 30 years of the Renaissance polymath’s work on paper in an exhibition...
Pharaoh at the NGV is the greatest exhibition of ancient Egyptian art ever seen in Australia
The Conversation· 5 days agoThere have been many exhibitions of ancient Egyptian art held in Australia. Pharaoh, at the National Gallery of Victoria, is outstanding for its scope, scale and presentation. It is the greatest ...
Museum hides African mask that ‘must not be seen by women’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOther museums have hidden a specific set of artefacts for religious reasons. A number of tablets...
Constituency challenge: Sunak vs Starmer in the tourism stakes
The Independent via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoIt features the Elgin Marbles (Room 18) and the Rosetta Stone (Room 4). Admission is free. Rishi...
University of Oxford museum hides African mask that ‘must not be seen by women’
Daily Telegraph· 1 day agoA number of tablets sacred to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church are held in the British Museum, and...
Modern surgery began with saws and iron hands: How amputation transformed the body in the...
Medical Xpress· 8 hours agoScholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed for amputation techniques and...
Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's Ark
LiveScience· 4 days agoWhat it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform inscriptions describing an epic flood that swept through Babylon.
