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theguardian.com /1 week ago

British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museumThe British Museum privately hosted the Donald Trump-supporting tec...

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ianvisits.co.uk /11 hours ago

Kings, battles and willies: Inside the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Beautifully lit and spectacularly displayed, the British Museum’s once-in-a-century exhibition is an emotional encounter with the story that changed England forever.Read more ›

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jornaleconomico.sapo.pt /1 month ago

Tapeçaria de Bayeux já se encontra no British Museum

A travessia do Canal da Mancha foi feita no mais absoluto sigilo. Pela primeira vez em cerca de mil anos, a Tapeçaria de Bayeux saiu de França e encontra-se agora em Londres, onde...

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cbsnews.com /2 days ago

Museum to return remains of 39 people taken during colonial rule in India

The Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the world's leading institutions for anthropology, ethnology and archaeology, holds over 6,000 artifacts from the Naga community in India.

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bbc.co.uk /4 weeks ago

UK's oldest museum of natural history gets new look

BBC South presenter Sophie Law visited the museum to discover what's new... and old.

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jpost.com /3 days ago

Cairo’s Egyptian Museum completes restoration, relocation of Ramesses II basalt stele

The museum’s director-general, noted that the stele was relocated and restored as part of the museum’s new display plan. It now stands between two other stelae depicting Ramses II.

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bbc.co.uk /1 week ago

Thieves steal Bronze Age artifacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist

The Treasure of Villena is a unique trove of almost ten kilos of gold, bowls, bottles and bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age.

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cbsnews.com /1 week ago

Ancient gold treasures stolen from museum in "super-fast" raid

The treasure was discovered in 1963 by archaeologist Jose Maria Soler in a vessel sunk in a dried-out riverbed in Villena.

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

One of UK’s best fossil collections sold overseas in ‘loss to the nation’

Exclusive: Lack of funds left British museums unable pay eight-figure sum for collection, which went to Abu Dhabi institutionOne of the most important collections of UK Jurassic fo...

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bbc.co.uk /1 month ago

Museum refused grants to buy £3.1m Highland artwork

Invergordon Museum said its attempt to safeguard the Sir John Gordon bust had hit a "critical impasse".

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ianvisits.co.uk /3 weeks ago

The expensive way to guarantee tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry

The first tickets sold out amid huge demand, but a luxury London hotel is offering guests another way into the British Museum exhibition â€” if their budget can take the strain.Rea...

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ianvisits.co.uk /1 month ago

The original model for Cleopatra’s Needle sphinxes is up for sale

If you’re a London egyptophile with a very deep pocket, something special is coming up for sale at auction in September.Read more ›

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nytimes.com /4 days ago

English Museum to Repatriate Colonial-Era Human Remains

The skeletal remains will go back to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent, six years after formal repatriation efforts began.

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oxfordmail.co.uk /3 weeks ago

Museum evacuated and Oxford University closed amid emergency incident

The Ashmolean Museum has been evacuated, and Oxford University's libraries have been closed due to an emergency incident.

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ianvisits.co.uk /1 month ago

London is getting a new museum showing off Roman and medieval fortifications

A section of the Roman Wall and a medieval bastion, hidden beneath an office building for decades, will open to the public this December in a new free museum.Read more â€º

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oxfordmail.co.uk /1 month ago

Museum's new exhibition highlights town's Saxon past

Archaeological finds from Saxon times are now on display in Abingdon's museum

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ekathimerini.com /1 week ago

UK’s PM softens position on Parthenon Marbles return

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, in an an interview with the Financial Times, has softened his position on the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, referring the issue to...

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bbc.co.uk /1 month ago

Donning protective kit for a first glance at the Bayeux Tapestry

The 70m-long 11th Century embroidery is to go on display at the British Museum, after it arrived in from France last week.

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bbc.co.uk /1 month ago

Oldest natural history museum completes redisplay

The new installations, which open on Monday, include the first ever named dinosaur, the Megalosaurus.

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icij.org /2 weeks ago

Despite years of confiscations, the Met still holds hundreds of pieces linked to alleged trafficking and looting figures

Museum says it wants no stolen artwork and that it has initiated an expedited review of hundreds of works tied to specific dealers.

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ekathimerini.com /1 month ago

After the Bayeux Tapestry why not the Parthenon Marbles

The looted Parthenon Marbles remain stolen art defended to this day by the British establishment.

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omanobserver.om /1 month ago

UK museums at &#039;sharp end&#039; of climate change challenge

As Britain experiences another summer heatwave, museums and heritage sites are facing growing challenges in protecting valuable collections from rising temperatures, humidity and f...

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scmp.com /1 week ago

23,000 bronzes, 14 years, 60 volumes: how China is mapping lost heritage held abroad

In the quiet of a Peking University research room, shelves groan under the weight of 60 thick volumes. Stacked, they stand taller than an average human. Inside their pages lie the...

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thenational.scot /1 week ago

Palantir boss given VIP viewing of Bayeux tapestry by British Museum

PALANTIR boss Peter Thiel was privately hosted by the British Museum for a viewing of the Bayeux tapestry, it has been reported.

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