NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Martin Bailey of The Art Newspaper about thefts at the British Museum that led to the director's resignation. The director of the British Museum is out. Hartwig Fischer ...

The British Museum in London has fired an employee after it discovered several valuable items in its collection were missing. The objects include pieces of gold jewelry, gems and semi-precious stones ...

As over half of the some 2,000 objects stolen from the British Museum collections remain missing, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is investigating various sales in the United States that ...

While details surrounding a spate of thefts at the British Museum continue to emerge, Greek officials are using the scandal to politick for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. The security questions ...

The British Museum has secured the £3.5 million required to buy the Tudor Heart pendant, discovered by a metal detectors last year, ensuring that ...

London (CNN) — Hundreds of items in the British Museum have been defaced, with valuable parts probably sold for scrap, an investigation has revealed. The London museum, whose treasures include the ...

One of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in London (photo by Helen Simonssonvia via The large-scale theft of cultural objects from the British Museum by one of its employees, and the failure ...

The director of the British Museum is out. Hartwig Fischer has resigned in response to a scandal over stolen artifacts. One report estimates that over 1,500 objects have gone missing. Now, Mr. Fischer ...