Feared lost forever, 20 ancient ivory artifacts looted from Afghanistan's national museum were presented to the country's president, Hamid Karzai, in London Tuesday.
The upper portion of a limestone likeness of King Tut's grandfather has been unearthed in Luxor, Egyptian officials said.
About 8,000 people evacuated the British Museum Saturday after authorities received complaints from about 10 people of eye and throat irritation, a spokeswoman for the museum said.
An amateur treasure hunter armed with a metal detector has found over 52,000 Roman coins worth $1 million buried in field, one of the largest ever such finds in the UK, said the British Museum.
An amateur treasure hunter in Britain finds one of the largest hoards ever of Roman coins. ITN's Romily Weeks reports.
We've all been there: a week until payday, the rent is due, and you're rummaging in your parents' attic to find Dad's Mickey Mantle rookie card.
Sharon Waxman explores the contentious intersection where museums, antiquities dealers, and national pride meet in Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
It's an incongruous sight: a super-modern, glass-walled building set at the foot of the ancient Acropolis.
Defying police presence and a thunderous downpour, dozens of Greek pagans huddled near the Parthenon in Athens on Sunday, holding a protest prayer for a museum being built at the foot of the sacred site.
The British Museum plans to display a statue of supermodel Kate Moss that it bills as the largest gold statue built since ancient Egypt.
When the Roman Emperor Hadrian came to power in 117AD he inherited an empire that was overstretched militarily and creaking at the seams.
Golden cup sold
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CNN's Phil Black reports on a cup found under a bed that fetched a small fortune at auction.
Englishman John Webber thought nothing of the small, shiny cup, passed down from his junk dealer grandfather and stashed under a bed for years, until appraisers said it was an ancient Persian artifact.
Showbiz Tonight gives us a look at "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," starring Harrison Ford.
Each summer, Europe greets a stampede of sightseers and shoppers with eager cash registers. Before jumping into the peak-season pig pile, consider the advantages of an off-season trip.
British graffiti artist Banksy has launched an art exhibition in Bethlehem that he hopes will focus attention on the poverty of the West Bank and draw tourists to the traditional birthplace of Christianity.
The glistening treasures of King Tut, the popular name of the famous Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, are fascinating a new generation of Londoners more than 25 years after the first exhibition was greeted with fanfare on British shores.
Antiquities from Egypt, China mean big bucks in London. CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh reports.
Banksy is Britain's most wanted artist -- his art sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he continues to use public spaces as his main canvas, while all the time keeping his identity a secret.
A name in a clay tablet appears to buttress the historical accuracy of the Biblical text
Emboldened by the return of two ancient artifacts claimed to have been spirited from Greek soil a decade ago, Greece's Prime Minister has lashed out at the British Museum, saying its grounds for refusing to relinquish possession of Greece's most famous antiquities, the Parthenon Marbles, were "feeble."
To see the real Rosetta Stone, one must travel to the British Museum. But lately a $30 million marketing blitz has made the company that bears its name almost ubiquitous. Founded in 1992 on the the...
The world's most densely populated capitals are familiar with traveling exhibitions that bring large numbers of fantastically rare objects from around the world and put them on display for the general public to enjoy.
How do you capture a nation's suffering and pain in a single expression? This has been Iraqi artist Suad Al Attar's mission since the beginning of the first Gulf War in 1991.
My abiding memory of the aftermath of Thursday's bomb attacks will be of the silence, and the stillness, and the emptiness, not things one normally associates with Britain's capital city, a habitually buzzing beehive of noise and activity.
Today Sudan presents the picture of an Islamic government at odds with the rest of the world.
To many Americans, guidebooks are the sine qua non of European travel. We're staunchly independent and often unwilling to learn the language--so we're not about to ask questions. And yet, we yearn ...
Meet Eruga gutfreundi, a species of female wasp recently discovered in the mountains of Costa Rica and named for John H. Gutfreund, CEO of Salomon Brothers. Why the honor? The investment bank helpe...
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