The organisers of a new art exhibition supported by the British Museum promise it will capture "the spirit of Wolverhampton".

Gladiators in Roman York were pitted against lions, archaeologists have proved. During the Roman Empire, contemporary authors ...

Greece celebrated the return of three Parthenon sculpture fragments from the Vatican Museums, intensifying its 40-year ...

Jewelry in a Roman treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest, East Anglia, indicates that Thetford was Pagan until the fifth ...

The Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova will represent Russia at the funeral of Pope Francis. The decision was made by ...

The reason for my visit concerned still more ancient history – a large number of gems that had gone missing from the British Museum, some of which may have been up to 3500 years old. Test your general ...

London's fabric will be taking over the British Museum for a one-off event next month. The Farringdon nightclub is set to ...

The discovery of a Roman gladiator skeleton with unusual bite marks led to the first direct physical evidence of human-animal ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Hiroshige ...

A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators and animals, according to new research. The skeleton of a man, ...