Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

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The expansive new exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists fills the entire space of London’s Freud Museum. It ...

Two protesters who smeared jam and porridge over a bust of Queen Victoria have been convicted of malicious mischief. Sarah Martin, 30, and Hannah Taylor, 24, carried out what they described as a ...

The statues helped the museum scientists identify the organs in ... The new scans helped scientists estimate that the high-status woman died in her late 30s to early 40s, while wear on her teeth ...

Sarah Martin and Hannah Taylor forced the closure of an area of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum after their protest in ...

More than £250,000 has been raised to begin the casting of a life-size bronze statue depicting an enslaved woman from ...

The statue conveys an important point – this ancient ... In addition to its other new offerings, on 23 November, the museum ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday unveiled a statue here of tribal icon Birsa Munda on his 150th birth anniversary and ...

Composer Melissa Dunphy discovered an unsolved murder at her home from 144 years ago. She brings her back to life with “Alice Tierney.” ...

The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...