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British Museum explores repatriation of more contested artefacts
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA stipulation in the British Museum Act 1963 is preventing Greece from signing a permanent deal over...
Caught Between Michelangelo: The Last Decades At The British Museum - Antiques And The Arts Weekly
Antiques and the Arts· 6 days agoLONDON — You crowd around Michelangelo’s “David.” Like the rest of them, you came to the Accademia...
Watch: Thieves steal Bronze Age gold in Cambridgeshire museum heist
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIt consists of 730g of almost pure gold and is thought to be worth more than £200,000. The gold torc...
‘Anglo-Saxon’ isn’t racist. It’s a source of English pride
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNo one who visits the Sutton Hoo gallery at the British Museum ever forgets the magnificent artistry...
How to Navigate London’s Wondrous (and Very Big) V&A Museum
New York Times· 18 hours agoPaintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The Victoria and Albert Museum is a...
I Read the Embattled Columbia President’s Old Book About What We Owe Each Other. It’s … Not Good.
Slate via Yahoo News· 4 days agoShe has served on the boards of the British Museum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and...
Hoard of 17th-century coins hidden during English Civil War unearthed during kitchen renovation
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDuring a kitchen renovation, a family in England unexpectedly discovered a hoard of coins that was...
Ghana, Nigeria and the quest for UK looted treasure
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe was also in that convoy, anxious nothing should go wrong. Mr Agyeman-Duah has been a key player in the negotiations over the return of the Asante...
Artist Daisy Parris Feels—and Paints—Everything to the Extreme
W Magazine· 8 hours agoDaisy Parris’s latest artworks are very large and very yellow. The 30-year-old British artist’s...
A Family Found 17th-Century Gold Coins Under Their Kitchen Floorboards—and the Collection Just Sold...
Martha Stewart· 5 days agoThe family's discovery was recently sold by Duke’s Auctioneers for $75,000—nearly doubling the initial sale estimate of $37,674. Betty and Robert Fooks found the coins when removing their kitchen ...