New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in south...

Historic objects damaged at Ireland’s National Museum included a bookcase thought to belong to Charles Stewart Parnell, a frog that got dried out, and a candelabra that lost its star.A log of mishaps of cultural items also details how the skin of a basking shark at the Natural History Museum was starting to split and ended up being fitted with a ‘nappy’ to avoid further damage.A spokesperson for t