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‘Objects hold energy’: Author posits that British Museum in London is full of ghosts
When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...
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Activists bombard British Museum’s social media with calls for return of Easter Island statue - CNN
The British Museum is facing renewed calls to return a huge moai statue to Easter Island, sparked by a social media campaign by Chilean activists.. Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the local ...
Is this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?
Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.
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British Museum returns Oceanic sculpture to Polynesia—for three years
The British Museum has lent the world’s most celebrated Oceanic sculpture to Tahiti’s main museum for three years. Known as A’a, the sculpture represents a deified ancestor of the people of ...
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British Museum is targeted by Chilean campaigners on social media in demand to return statue taken from Easter Island 150 years ago - Mail Online
The British Museum is being targeted by Chilean campaigners who are demanding the return of a statue taken from Easter Island more than 150 years ago.. Campaigners began 'spamming' the museum's ...
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British Museum accused of silencing critics after being targeted on social media to return Easter Island statues - undefined - The Art Newspaper
The British Museum has been accused of trying to silence its critics after calls for moai statues be returned to Easter Island went viral on social media. The museum switched off comments on one ...
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British Museum facing social media campaign to return Easter Island statue
The British Museum has been subject to a campaign by social media users in Chile demanding the return of a stone monument taken from Easter Island. The museum has two moai statues which were taken ...
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Where do the items in the British Museum come from?
The statues ended up in the British Museum by way of a British survey ship, which was led to the location of the Moai Hava. The crew collected the first moai in1868 and unearthed a second.
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Some of the 2,000 items stolen from the British Museum were recovered, officials say - CBS News
Osborne, a former U.K. treasury chief, said the museum has launched an independent review led by a lawyer and a senior police officer. He said it also had built a state-of-the-art off-site storage ...
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Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta Stone - New York Post
The stone is one of more than 100,000 Egyptian and Sudanese relics housed in the British Museum. A large percentage were obtained during Britain’s colonial rule over the region from 1883 to 1953. 5 ...
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Activists bombard British Museum’s social media with calls for return of Easter Island statue | CNN - CNN International
The British Museum is facing renewed calls to return a huge moai statue to Easter Island, sparked by a social media campaign by Chilean activists.. Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the local ...