The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints.

Israel group to remove the term ‘Palestine’, a move scholars and activists say is part of a ‘systematic’ attack on Palestinian cultural identity ...

Introductory -- Curating the ancient Middle East / Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit -- Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East : a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. (Peter ...

1. Introduction. 1.1. Historical background : the ancient Near East in the Late Bronze Age -- 2. Identity as a theoretical framework in the study of ancient art. 2.1. Is identity a valid tool for ...

Global Guides tour at Penn Museum, Moumena Saradar showcases similarities between her grandfather’s family business and the artifacts from Tepe Gawra (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) ...

Archaeologist Brian Windle asserted that the learned trifecta were actually priests or astrologers from an ancient Middle Eastern Kingdom called Nabatea. ullstein bild via Getty Images They’re more ...

The museum admitted it had ‘retroactively’ applied the term, including by referring to people in the region as being of ‘Palestinian descent’ ...

Information placards in the ancient Middle East gallery have been changed.