The Mary Rose warship of the English Tudor Navy sunk in 1545. Dr. Sheona Shankland, an anatomist and lead researcher, ...
A gilded-silver drinking ladle, or kovsh in Russian, and a bronze samovar that once facilitated the daily lives of czars in ...
The British Museum has been gifted one of the world's most prodigious collections of Chinese ceramics, worth £1 billion ...
“It was made in the imperial kilns of Ming China, in around 1465,” Osborne said ... because Chinese is such a concise ...
A 1,700-piece private collection of Chinese ceramics with an estimated value of £1 billion ($1.27 billion) has been donated to the British Museum -- a record for any UK institution.
The British Museum announced its acquisition of the Sir Percival David Foundation’s world-famous private collection of ...
The objects were acquired in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and China by British businessman Sir Percival David, who lived from ...
In a speech delivered at the Peruvian Congress on Nov. 21, 2016, Xi expressed his admiration for the Inca civilization, praising the magnificence of Machu Picchu, the mesmerizing Nazca Lines, and the ...