While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police ...

Which museums should you visit in the UK, from contemporary art galleries to local history exhibitions - There are around ...

The most dazzling oligarch in the world, 260 years ... 400 million – and later said he was astonished by his own moderation. That story has a grim and ominous relevance today, as the British ...

Opened in 1880 and situated along Central Park, this iconic New York institution contains 5,000 years ... The museum's collection and library contains more than 1.6 million items, including ...

An oil painting of an African prince created by the Austrian master Gustav Klimt, unearthed in recent years and almost dismissed for not looking like one of his more famous works, is now on sale for ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil ...

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said. Ancient humans ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

A team of researchers has uncovered evidence that early humans in Tanzania were crafting tools from animal bones 1.5 million years ago, overturning the long-standing assumption that bone technology ...