British Museum 
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SOURCE: The Guardian
8/25/2020
British Museum Removes Founder's Statue Over Slavery Links
Hans Sloane ‘pushed off pedestal’ and placed with artefacts putting his work in context of British empire.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
12-7-2018
Recently Deciphered 4,500-Year-Old Pillar Shows First Known Record of a Border Dispute
The marble stele, held in the British Museum’s collections for 150 years, also includes the first known use of the term “no man’s land.”
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SOURCE: New Republic
8-14-18
The British Museum’s “Looting” Problem
by Josephine Livingstone
The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.
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SOURCE: The Times (London)
1-17-18
Bayeux Tapestry to be displayed in Britain
The first loan of the Bayeux Tapestry outside France for 950 years is expected to be to the British Museum in 2022.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-16-15
British Museum’s Director Follows a Fascination to Germany
Neil MacGregor will leave his post in Britain to help shape one of Germany’s most audacious cultural projects, the Humboldt Forum.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9-25-15
German Art Historian to Head the British Museum
Art historian Hartwig Fischer to take charge at the London musuem – second-most visited in the world after the Louvre in Paris and most popular visitor attraction in Britain
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SOURCE: The Independent
11-4-14
British Museum releases scans of artefacts to let you 3D print your own museum at home
Working in collaboration with Sketchfab, an online platform that lets users share and download 3D scans, the British Museum has created 14 3D models of busts, statues and sarcophagi from its collection for anyone to download and print at home.
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SOURCE: The Independent
7-14-14
Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago
French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows.
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SOURCE: The Independent
5-20-14
Egyptian mummies: Science or sacrilege?
By cutting open the mummies, scholars and collectors destroyed the fragile layers of embalmment, arranged with care after death in order to ensure the person's existence in the afterlife.
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SOURCE: BBC News
6-21-13
British Museum launches gay history guide
The British Museum has launched a guide focusing on elements of homosexuality to be found in its collection.A Little Gay History draws on objects ranging from ancient Egyptian papyri and the erotic scenes on the Roman Warren Cup to images by David Hockney.Written by curator Richard Parkinson, it explores artistic portrayals of what it means to be gay and the difficulties in finding records of same-sex desire.The guide is accompanied by an audio trail featuring Simon Russell Beale....
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