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Antiquities dealer who exposed British Museum thefts dies aged 61

artefacts from the British Museum, has died of cancer, aged 61. In his final days he received a rarely-presented medal from the museum in recognition of what its director called his "very significant contribution

'Nothing left to chance' for Bayeux Tapestry's journey to London

artefact from its display in Bayeux and place it on a folding stand. This is currently at an undisclosed location somewhere in or near Bayeux. For the journey to London, the stand – which concertinas down

Story of Black British music writ large in first exhibition at V&A East

artefacts find their way into collections but how Black British music is seen. “Institutionally, it’s an endorsement,” she says. “The V&A has recognised that black music is worthy of this kind of coverage

‘Hindu order runs India’: Court declares another medieval mosque a temple

happen.” ## ‘Entrenched Islamophobia’ The site of the Kamal Maula mosque, or the so-called Bhojshala complex, has been disputed for decades, with the earliest Hindu nationalist claims made on the site in the late 1950s

Palestinian ambassador protests to Foreign Office over ’erasure’ by British Museum

artefacts in dug up during an archaeological excavation in Gaza City. Photograph: Loay Ayyoub/The Observer Zomlot was invited to meet the museum’s director, Nicholas Cullinan, and some of its curators on 24 March