Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Fitzwilliam Museum's newly rehung galleries - PA Photo “Pointed but respectful”: that’s how the director of Cambridge’s ...

There are rare records of women’s voices in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially ordinary middle and lower class women. An exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum is ...

It may not be quite the British Museum's Great Court, but the Fitzwilliam Museum's new enclosed courtyard, unveiled yesterday, does a similar job - albeit in a style more restrained than Foster and ...

Historic and contemporary pieces interrogate city and university’s connections to colonialism An exhibition by the Fitzwilliam Museum will explore Cambridge’s connections to enslavement and ...

In 1823, the fashionable British painter William Etty made a special trip to Paris to buy himself a new piece of equipment for his studio. It wasn’t an easel or brushes he was after, but a life-size ...

Police investigating the theft of millions of pounds worth of chinese pottery from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge have arrested two men. The pair were taken into custody at an address in London ...

Richard Fitzwilliam died on 4 February 1816, leaving 144 paintings, 10,000 books, albums of Old Master drawings, medieval manuscripts and musical scores to Cambridge University The forgotten story of ...