There can be little doubt that the most notorious of them is the Duveen scouring scandal, so-named after Joseph Duveen, an ultra-rich art dealer of dubious ethics and benefactor of the British Museum.

The mummy, believed to date back to the Ptolemaic period (around 332–30 BCE), was not newly excavated, but rather rediscovered through modern science. It has been housed at the Archdiocesan Museum in ...

The British Museum gets embroiled in a scandal over the theft of 2,000 precious objects from its collections. The alleged 20-year heist has tarnished the institution's security and control. The ...

In a discovery that’s capturing global attention, researchers studying a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy have uncovered a mysterious object hidden inside the chest of a young child. Using cutting-edge ...