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Stonehenge glories are tarnished by British Museum’s oil giant backer

This great cultural institution’s trustees must refuse to renew its sponsorship arrangement with BP

The Guardian - UK

The World of Stonehenge: the best cosmic homeware buys inspired by new British Museum exhibition

Inspired by the opening of the new Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum, the suns and stars have aligned with our celestial interiors edit.

Evening Standard

Archdruid of Stonehenge blesses new exhibition at British Museum

The show allows the public to learn about the history of Stonehenge and its significance today.

The Independent UK

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Londoner’s Diary: British Museum defends move into digital art market

The British Museum dips a toe into NFTs / PinkPantheress on how she broke the US / Sadie Frost relives carefree youth / Dave Benett puts on a party

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on Stonehenge: a dynamic monument

Editorial: A new British Museum exhibition portrays a Stonehenge that changed and developed over 1,500 years. But the desires of its builders still elude us

The Guardian - UK

Why Parthenon replicas should go to Greece

Letter: It would make more sense to send facsimiles of the sculptures to Athens and keep the originals at the British Museum, writes Michael Daley of ArtWatch UK

The Guardian - UK

Stonehenge through the ages: Exhibit brings builders to life

A new exhibition at the British Museum in London aims to shed new light on the ancient Stonehenge monument and on the people who built it

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‘Every year it astounds us’: the Orkney dig uncovering Britain’s stone age culture

Archaeologists excavating the windswept Ness of Brodgar are unearthing a treasure trove of neolithic villages, tombs, weapons and mysterious religious artefacts, some to be displayed in a blockbuster exhibition

The Guardian - UK

The World of Stonehenge review – even the stone axes amaze

British Museum, LondonThis fiercely emotional exhibition venerates the people of ancient Britain, uncovering a mystical landscape of gods and kings

The Guardian - UK

The World of Stonehenge at the British Museum review: wonder of wonders

This glimpse into an almost entirely unknown England is full of astonishing artefacts that shed light on our early culture

Evening Standard

Cosmic Stonehenge secrets, Ai Weiwei looks back, and gay sex 11,000 years ago – the week in art

The British Museum introduces Europe’s earliest ancestors, the activist artist sits his work next to Chinese antiquities and LGBT+ history month begins with the deep human past – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Prehistoric drum is top ancient find, says British Museum

LONDON: A carved stone drum unearthed in England is one of the most significant pieces of prehistoric art ever found in the country, the British Museum said on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is ‘most important art find’ in a century

Sculpture suggests artistic styles and ideas spanned huge distances even 5,000 years ago

The Independent UK

British museum hails discovery of pre-historic art

The Burton Agnes chalk drum, a 5,000 year old chalk sculpture, was found on a country estate in the eponymous area of East Yorkshire.

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Ancient sculpture is ‘most important prehistoric art find in UK for century’

5,000-year-old chalk drum decorated with motifs was discovered in Yorkshire alongside burial of three children

The Guardian - UK

Parthenon marbles’ return would be a lovely jubilee gesture

Letters: The sculptures in the British Museum could be replaced by exact replicas, and it would be fitting to return them to Greece this year, says Roger Michel. Plus letters from Anna Watson, Alan Gavurin and Richard Pickvance

The Guardian - UK

The Parthenon marbles belong in Greece – so why is restitution so hard to swallow?

Repatriating the spoils of empire is stuck in all manner of legal and historical impasses, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

The Guardian - UK

How science is uncovering the secrets of Stonehenge

A major new exhibition connects the stones on Salisbury Plain to many points and cultures across Europe through 1,500 years of immigration

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The Independent UK

British Museum hails ‘homecoming’ of world’s oldest map of the stars

It forms part of The World Of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum.

The Guardian - UK

Greece to step up Parthenon marbles pressure amid signs tide is turning

Campaign for British Museum to return antiquities boosted by support from the Times newspaper

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