Reporting from Oxford, England — The words “musty” and “fusty” are often trotted out to describe much about Oxford, and not always derogatorily. Visitors who flock to this college town often come in ...

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THE Ashmolean Museum’s new director is aiming to ensure at least one million visitors a year come through the door. Dr Alexander Sturgis said he was delighted to take one of “the great museum jobs” ...

Everything I admired about the new Ashmolean museum is symbolised by the reopening of the massive front doors under the central portico of Sir Charles Cockerell’s 1845 neoclassical building. They have ...

More than 22,000 people visited the newly opened Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford at the weekend. The final visitor numbers were 13,741 on Saturday between 1000 GMT and 2200 GMT and 9 ...

The discovery of the 7,000-year-old Varna Necropolis in 1972 sent shockwaves through the archaeological world. The 264 graves complete with exquisite funerary gifts proved that at the time when ...

The new Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (modern-day Sudan) will open on 26 November and feature the Ashmolean’s Egyptian collections and objects that have been in storage for decades.