On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The Deutsches Museum has covered up a Musk-featured panel at its "Astronautics" exhibit. © 2024 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved. Use of this site ...

A German museum has removed a portrait of billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk from its space technology exhibit, citing challenges in honoring living figures amid shifting public perceptions.

Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets ... few scholars can read the languages on the tablets—which include Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hittite—the overwhelming majority remain ...

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end of the first millennium B.C., cuneiform continued to be used by temple scribes and astrologers. Greek scholars are known ...

A married pair of researchers have rewritten the history of kissing with the help of the Barton Cylinder, housed in a museum ...

Discover what you can see and do in our free galleries, and where you can eat, drink and shop across the Museum. Whether you're visiting us for the first time or the fiftieth, these self-guided tours ...