When The Warren Cup, a fine Roman art work of the first century, was acquired by the British Museum in 1999, great controversy arose partly because of the price, but mostly because of the explicit hom
The British Museum has one of the finest collections of antiquities from ancient Greece and Rome outside of those countries. Masterpieces of Classical Art presents the highlights of the British Museu
In 1891 the British Museum was offered a collection of gold ornaments that were said to have come from the Greek island of Aigina. Even though there was no definite provenance for the treasure, the mu
