The Latest Breaking News from the British Museum

The British Museum is partially closed to the public after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems

A recently dismissed contractor shut down several systems before being arrested, the museum said

Tourists visiting world-famous attraction were forced to evacuate after a fire alarm on Friday afternoon

400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to palaeontologists, but an extraordinary, enormous and near-complete skull is helping us uncover an obscure episode in the evolutionary history of these…

Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and functional.

The British Museum boss on his favourite karaoke spot, nights out with Courtney Love and the Miuccia Prada line he lives by

The head of the British Museum said Wednesday any deal with Greece to loan the prized Parthenon Marbles to Athens was "still some distance" away, as Greek authorities insist on their permanent return.

British Museum chairman Mr Osborne said Sir Keir Starmer’s Government had contributed to a warmer spirit of negotiations with Greece.