Among these antiquities is the Holy Thorn Reliquary, a gift from France's King Louis IX to then-Abbott Girold as gratitude for sending relics of Saint Mauritius (another name for Saint Maurice).

One can rationalize this as honouring the holy contents. But the Duke who owned the reliquary ... to the British Museum come to admire the container and not reverence the thorn, but one suspects ...

The British Museum faced further controversy last year when it was discovered that some 2,000 items, including jewellery and semi-precious stones, were missing, with some even surfacing on eBay.

The British Museum, Tate Modern and Science Museum are among the UK cultural institutions being encouraged to charge foreign visitors to see their treasures. The former interim director of London ...

London — London's renowned British Museum is facing an investigation by ... If and when consecrated, a tabot is typically kept in a church's Holy of Holies, an inner sanctum that only senior ...

The British Museum has been accused of concealing information about a group of contested Ethiopian artifacts that were looted by British soldiers after the Battle of Maqdala in 1868. The 11 ...

At the British Museum, he had the Rothschild Foundation fund the redisplaying in 2015 of the Waddesdon Bequest, the only wunderkammer in Britain, whose jewel is the Holy Thorn Reliquary ...

The British Museum and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced on Thursday that 32 gold and silver artifacts from Ghana, which were looted during the Anglo-Ashanti Wars in the 1800s ...

The British Museum's professional mousing staff answered to names like Black Jack and Poppet. | Nina Pearman/Moment/Getty Images Among the priceless artifacts and cultural treasures at the British ...

The British Museum has announced plans to digitize its entire permanent collection, totaling over eight million pieces, as reported by ARTNews. The museum announced the move as part of ongoing ...

The British Museum has solicited the public’s help in finding an estimated 2,000 artifacts that had been stolen from the institution’s collection over the course of several years. The famed ...

Sixty items have been returned, the museum said in a statement sent to ABC News. LONDON -- Please return if found: Hundreds of missing artifacts formerly housed in a museum in central London.