Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

Trump reacts to the TIME magazine cover of Elon Musk sitting behind Trump's desk at a meeting with prime minister Shigeru ...

Mary Beard, described as the most famous classicist in Britain, presented her lecture titled “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum” on ...

A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

The Natural History Museum in London revealed that the winning photograph of this year's wildlife contest depicted an "ambling Eurasian badger." ...

On a recent morning, as jacarandas blossomed all around, a “closed for installation” notice hung on virtually every gallery ...

With a record 76,000 votes, these are the winner and highly commanded images chosen by wildlife photography and nature fans ...

‘No Access’, British photographer Ian Wood’s perfectly timed capture of an ambling Eurasian badger glancing up at some rather familiar graffiti in St Leonards-on-Sea, England, has won the tenth ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

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The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

In the Canadian province of British Columbia, winter is meant to be embraced not merely endured. That’s why the only ones ...