The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

more grandiose sculptures and jewellery, and that the way the British Museum acquired them varies too. Museum's biggest pieces are from elsewhere Indeed, while England is the biggest contributor ...

British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala ... Later, the Venetian admiral Francesco Morosini tried to remove sculptures in order to take them back to Venice. The pulley he was using ...

British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan said he ... in which it listed various items it hoped to recoup including ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties and stone buddhist sutra ...