British Museum Traces History of Dissent From Ancient Egypt to Today ‘I Object: Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent’ span centuries, continents ...

Pharaoh will feature more than 500 British Museum objects including monumental sculpture, tomb and temple architecture, coffins and funerary objects, as well as ancient Egyptian jewellery.

The stone is one of more than 100,000 Egyptian and Sudanese relics housed in the British Museum. A large percentage were obtained during Britain’s colonial rule over the region from 1883 to 1953.

But as the British Museum notes on its website, the Rosetta Stone is, “one of the most famous objects in the British Museum,” even though the stone signifies the country’s colonial history.

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the Meroe Head of Augustus, a mummified crocodile from Ancient Egypt and a newly ...

Object Details Author Moser, Stephanie Subject British Museum Contents Museum display, representation, and ancient Egypt -- To pleasurably serve the mind : the didactic study collections of the early ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art's major show for the spring of its centennial year is "Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt," a selection of masterpieces drawn almost entirely from the British Museum in London.

Thousands of Egyptians are demanding that the British Museum return the Rosetta stone. The bilingual carvings on the stone proved to be the breakthrough in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian ...

Some British museums are rebranding ancient Egyptian "mummies," instead calling them "mummified people" to emphasize that they once lived.

During the Egypt Gallery's closure, the museum’s collection of Egyptian and Nubian objects will remain in the temporary exhibition Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display.Visitors will also be able ...

It has grown increasingly common for museums and collectors to return artifacts to their country of origin, with new instances reported nearly monthly. Often, it’s the result of a court rulin… ...