Two prominent Egyptian archeologists are leading campaigns for the bust to be returned to Egypt, 112 years after it was taken ...

When Monica Hanna first visited Berlin in 2007, even before checking into her hotel, she rushed to the Altes Museum to visit ...

Berlin’s Altes Museum has returned 25 antiquities, including 21 Apulian vases, that are believed to have been illegally excavated and smuggled out of Italy several decades ago. The German culture ...

Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Altes Museum, completed in 1830, is one of the most important buildings of the Neoclassical era. Today the museum houses the Antikensammlung, showcasing its permanent ...

Berlin's Museum Island uniquely encapsulates Germany's modern history — from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the destruction of World War II, from the Cold War era to its current ultra-modern ...

Now showing at Berlin's Altes Museum, Meat presents depictions of flesh in contemporary and ancient art that reveal an ongoing conflict between the living and the dead in human culture. Meat has been ...

A 3,300-year-old bust of Nefertiti has a stucco exterior that conceals a limestone core. (Herbert Knosowski/Associated Press) Researchers in Germany have discovered that Nefertiti, an Egyptian bust on ...

The Altes Museum was the first to be built on the Museum Island. Our drone pays it a visit today. #DailyDrone is our daily bird's-eye view of Germany. Every day a different exciting location in the ...