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  British Museum Obtains Court Order Against Ex-Curator Accused Of Theft

  A London court on Tuesday ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to return those still in his possession.

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  British Museum Sets Up Public Hotline For 2,000 Missing Artefacts

  The British Museum launched a public hotline on Tuesday asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artefacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewellery.

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  In "Highly Unusual" Incident, Historic Treasures Stolen From British Museum

  The British Museum, one of London's premier tourist attractions with thousands of precious artefacts on display, has sacked a staffer pending legal action after several treasures from a storeroom were found to have been stolen.

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  British Museum To Restore Artefacts Damaged In Beirut Port Blast

  The British Museum will restore eight ancient glass artefacts damaged in last year's Beirut port explosion, the London cultural institution announced on Tuesday.

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  British Museum Acquires Rare Indian Painting "Trumpeters" For $576K

  The prestigious British Museum in London has acquired a unique watercolour depicting a traditional musical performance in mid-18th century northern India after successfully raising the 440,000 pounds required to buy the rare painting.

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  Museum Exhibits 3,500-Year-Old Disposable Cup That May Have Held Wine

  About 3,500 years separate the two cups that will sit next to each other at the heart of a new museum exhibit in London.

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  London Teen Becomes Britain's Youngest Convicted Female ISIS Terrorist

  A London teenager was found guilty Monday of preparing an attack on the British Museum as part of the country's first all-female cell linked to ISIS, police and prosecutors said.

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  Stopped From Joining ISIS Fiance In Syria, Teen Planned London Attack

  A London teenager who wanted to attack the British Museum with grenades and firearms after she was prevented from travelling to Syria to marry an ISIS terrorist was convicted on Monday of planning acts of terrorism.

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  Man Pranks Tourists By Pretending To Be Wax Statue At Madame Tussauds

  A British man is getting lots of laughs on social media after successfully pranking a number of people by pretending to be a wax statue at London's famous wax museum Madame Tussauds.

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  UK Museums Put On ISIS Alert: Report

  Museums and galleries across the UK have stepped up security amid fears of a possible bomb attack by the ISIS terror group, a media report said today.

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  Scientists ID New Genus Of Tree Frogs Long Thought Extinct

  For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a vanished species, never again found in the wild. Until now.

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  World Famous Wax Museum Madame Tussauds' to Open in New Delhi

  Madame Tussauds', world famous Wax Museum, will open its new venture in New Delhi for Bollywood stars as part of the India-UK Year of Culture in 2017, it was officially announced in London coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the UK.

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  World's Oldest Bible on Show as British Museum Tracks Egypt's Religions

  The world's oldest bible is among 200 objects tracing Egypt's religious evolution in an exhibition at London's British Museum, which opens Friday and spans the 1,200 years since Cleopatra's death.

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  German Art Historian to Head British Museum

  A German art historian was named Tuesday as the next director of the British Museum, becoming the first foreigner to head the prestigious London institution in 150 years.

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  UK Historian to Take Up Advisory Role at Mumbai Museum

  The chief of London's prestigious British Museum has decided to quit and will be taking on a more part-time role advising a leading museum in India.