The reopened department's galleries feature 12 000 objects that aim to promote 'mutual understanding and education'.

Athens's new museum is spectacular, even without its star exhibits. Kevin Rushby gets a sneak preview.

A 14 500-year-old woolly-mammoth skeleton, almost intact and dug up in 1994, has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

It was just a farm, but what went on there was extraordinary: Nelson Mandela, disguised in blue overalls, plotting with other anti-apartheid leaders against South Africa's racist regime.