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The British Museum has ended a 27-year sponsor partnership with BP, with campaigners now urging the museum to ensure that it won't agree to any future agreements with fossil fuel companies.

The debate over who owns ancient artefacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe and America, and the spotlight has fallen on the most visited piece in the British Museum: the Rose

As the state partners with energy companies on multibillion-dollar gas projects, environmental activists face political repression

The Rosetta Stone stars in a new exhibition opening Thursday at the British Museum marking one of the most significant dates in Egyptology — 200 years after a French scholar finally cracked its code and deciphered hieroglyphs. The exhibition comes at a time the British Museum is under pressure from some Egyptologists to hand the…

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London Cocktail Week, spooky walks, and loads of new exhibitions.

Radical Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña takes over the Turbine, an international star returns to his Welsh roots and The British Museum unlocks hieroglyphic secrets

The key to ancient Egypt: 200 years ago, the Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of hieroglyphs. Coincidence played the main role in the archaeological thriller.

The key to ancient Egypt: 200 years ago, the Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of hieroglyphs. Coincidence played the main role in the archaeological thriller.

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