Calls for British Museum to return treasures to China after hundreds of artefacts stolen
Chinese state media has called for the return of its artefacts from the British Museum “free of charge” in the wake of the theft scandal . It comes after revelations that more than 1,500 priceless objects have gone missing from the Bloomsbury institution …
The ‘Sutton Hoo king’s lost temple’ was discovered in Suffolk
A lost 1,400-year-old temple, said to have been built by the English king buried at Sutton Hoo , may have been discovered in Suffolk. The Venerable Bede, a monk and historian, wrote that King Redwald, who died in AD 625, built a temple housing altars …