The British Museum released its annual tally of archaeological items found by the public — and the newest list is record-setting, the museum said this week. Overall, 53,490 archaeological ...

Priceless British Museum artefacts which were stolen by a now sacked member of staff may already be long gone, an expert has claimed. Museum chiefs said the items had not been on public display ...

The British Museum has begun recovering some items that were taken from the prestigious institution and sold online, museum chair George Osborne said on Saturday. Osborne’s comments follow ...

About 2,000 treasures are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum, but recovery has begun of some of them, chairman George Osborne has said. The ex-chancellor accepted the museum's ...

Parts of some missing objects have probably been sold to scrap metal merchants, museum administrators say. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Four months after the British Museum fired a ...