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.

London: British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000 year old Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said ...

Containing vast collections of treasures from the ancient world, the British Museum in London is a prodigious source of ...

The British Museum in London is among the world’s greatest, alongside the Louvre in Paris and the Met in New York City. Like its peers, it’s sometimes embroiled in scandals over the provenance ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

By using a noninvasive imaging technique, researchers at the British Museum — where nearly half of the sculptures reside — and King’s College London found traces of paint on 11 out of 17 ...

London The circle at Stonehenge, in England, was raised around the same time, 2,500 B.C., as the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

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.

This undated photo provided by the British Museum, shows the Rosetta Stone, the centerpiece of a new exhibition at London’s largest museum titled, “Hieroglyphs unlocking ancient Egypt ...