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NEWS ABOUT: British Museum

British Museum stories: 4 news summaries

 China To Scour 
 Museums for 
 Looted Art 

Artifact team will hunt for Imperial Gardens booty

Oct 22, 09 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - China is about to send teams of artifact hunters to the world's top museums to track down looted art treasures. They'll be on the lookout for art from the splendid Imperial Gardens of Yuan Ming Yuan, more commonly known as the Old Summer Palace, which was used by Chinese emperors... More »

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China • art • museums • British Museum • The Louvre • Metropolitan Museum of Art • looted art • summer palace

 Massive Ancient 
 Gold Trove Likely 
 Battle Booty 

Experts compare record find to discovery of King Tut's tomb

Sep 25, 09 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Experts dazzled by a record trove of ancient gold and silver unearthed in an English field believe the hoard of coins, hilts and parts of shields was war booty stripped from fallen soldiers and buried on the run. It was finally unearthed by a man with a metal detector 14... More »

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England • British Museum • gold • scientist • ancient history • body armor • King Tut • archeologist • metal detector • anglo saxon • Staffordshire Hoard • Terry Herbert

 Brit Museum 
 Refuses to 
 Lose Its Marbles 

Museum refuses to sanction Elgin's deeds

Jun 14, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tension between Greek and British museum officials over ownership of the famous Elgin marbles bubbled over this week, reports the Guardian. With the New Acropolis Museum set to open in Athens, Greece is refusing to accede to British terms concerning the loan of the classical treasure. The British Museum offered... More »

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Greece • British Museum • Acropolis • Elgin marbles

Warriors Invade British Museum

Terracotta warriors travel to London for landmark exhibition

Sep 6, 07 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - British papers have been absorbed with stories of Chinese hackers, but another set of Chinese warriors has invaded London: the millennia-old terracotta statues that guard the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi. The Telegraph is presenting a preview of the British Museum's The First Emperor, an exhibition years in the making that... More »

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London • art • warriors • terracotta • Qin Shihuangdi • British Museum

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