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Visitors walk outside the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, June 26, 2015. (AP/Tim Ireland)
May 28, 2026, 6:46 pm
British Museum postpones lecture on Ancient Israel, citing security concerns amid feared protests
Significant number of RSVPs were believed to be potential protesters, museum says, adding that it’ll reschedule event when safety of audience and integrity of program can be ensured
By Rossella Tercatin
The British Museum. (Wikimedia Commons/Eric Pouhier CC BY-SA)
February 16, 2026, 5:08 pm
British Museum removes some references to ‘Palestine’ after accuracy complaints
UK Lawyers for Israel prompts change, arguing applying name to periods when no such entity existed risks ‘obscuring the history of Israel and the Jewish people’
By ToI Staff
Ancient Mesopotamian tablets recently deciphered by Assyriologist Andrew George. (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative)
August 24, 2024, 5:44 pm
Ancient Babylonians thought solar eclipses predicted disasters
Deciphering four Mesopotamian tablets, team led by Assyriologist Andrew George shows Babylonians understood celestial events as messages from the gods
By ToI Staff
A 3D reconstruction of a male face published in December 2022, based on a 9,000-year-old plastered skull unearthed in the West Bank city of Jericho in 1953. (Cicero Moraes/Thiago Beaini/Moacir Santos)
January 16, 2023, 8:22 pm
9,000-year-old Jericho skull gets virtual facelift using plastic surgery techniques
Brazilian team of researchers reforms facial features and adds hair to create new 3D-image from remains found near West Bank city 70 years ago
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: Protesters stage a die-in and have their shapes traced on the sidewalk outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, New York, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
October 3, 2022, 10:27 am
Joining wave of institutions, London museum drops Sackler name from exhibits
Victoria and Albert Museum cuts ties from American family blamed for fueling opioid crisis; advocacy group leader Nan Goldin hails ‘big victory’
By ToI Staff
British museum press assistant Stella Scobie examines the newly conserved ancient glass vessels damaged during the 2020 Beirut port explosion, and displayed at the British Museum in London, on August 24, 2022 (Susannah Ireland/AFP)
August 25, 2022, 9:40 am
British Museum unveils reconstructed ancient vessels smashed in Beirut blast
Roman, Byzantine and Islamic period vessels were shattered in 2020 explosion that killed 218; conservationists painstakingly reconstruct glassware piece by piece
By James Pheby
The British Museum. (Wikimedia Commons/Eric Pouhier CC BY-SA)
March 26, 2022, 7:39 pm
British Museum to remove Sackler name from galleries amid opioid scandal
Move follows global outrage over family’s role in crisis
By AP
A clay-fired cone returned to Iraq from the British Museum. (British Museum)
August 12, 2018, 4:14 am
British Museum returning looted cones, other antiquities to Iraq
Researchers able to show provenance after establishing that votive objects were identical to others found at temple site in Iraq where British museum does training
By AFP
Sculpted figurine of two lovers, Natufian, from Ain Sakhri (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
June 28, 2018, 2:07 am
First artistic depiction of sex, found near Bethlehem, to join UK LGBTQ exhibit
11,000-year-old Natufian stone sculpture, which shows an entwined androgynous couple caught in the act, was discovered in the Judean Desert in the 1930s
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The display case holding four objects taken from an Egyptian home in 1973 by an Israeli soldier, who later became an artist, and unintentionally inspired one of his students to create an exhibit based on her works and that of the anonymous artist (Courtesy Noam Preisman)
September 4, 2017, 9:02 pm
Yom Kippur War booty makes artist yearn for missing links
Jerusalem exhibit asks viewers to ‘plunder’ iconic objects inspired by act of pilferage from abandoned home 44 years ago
By Jessica Steinberg
A 9,500-year-old Neolithic plastered skull from the British Museum's collection. (courtesy: British Museum)
December 15, 2016, 2:07 pm
New exhibit gives 9,500-year-old Jericho man digital makeover
After extensive study, British Museum to showcase 3D reconstruction of head that was found covered in plaster near West Bank city
By Ilan Ben Zion
New director of the British Museum, German-born Hartwig Fischer (YouTube screenshot)
April 2, 2016, 8:51 pm
75 years after his nation bombed it, German heads British Museum
Art historian Hartwig Fischer to become first foreigner in 150 years appointed as director of revered cultural institution
By ToI Staff
Author Chanan Tigay during a recent trip to Venice, Italy. (Emanuele Dello Strologo)
March 30, 2016, 9:45 am
Author plays Indiana Jones on the trail of ‘the World’s Oldest Bible’
In 1883, Moses Shapira claimed to have found ancient parchments with the text of Deuteronomy in the Judean Desert. But they were dismissed as forgeries, and he committed suicide. Decades later, the Dead Sea Scrolls were uncovered in the same area. Chanan Tigay set out to discover if Shapira was wronged
By Matt Lebovic
A bronze statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian from Tel Shalem, in northern Israel, at an Israel Museum exhibit opening December 22, 2015. (Moti Tufeld)
December 22, 2015, 7:57 am
Three surviving bronzes of Hadrian united in stunning Israel Museum exhibit
Unique collaboration with Louvre, British Museum also sees monumental Jerusalem inscription in emperor’s honor rejoined after 1,700 years
By Ilan Ben Zion
A Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, right, the earliest complete New Testament, from 4th century Egypt or Judea on display in the 'Sacred : Discover what we share' exhibition at the British Library in London, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
August 27, 2015, 8:35 pm
Oldest complete New Testament to go on display at British Museum
‘Egypt: Faith after the pharaohs’ to exhibit holy texts penned on the Nile from three monotheistic religions
By Ilan Ben Zion
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