General Catalogue of Printed Books
The Waddesdon Bequest: The Legacy of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild to the British Museum
General Catalogue of Printed Books
General Catalogue of Printed Books
The Ancient Olympic Games
The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution
General Catalogue of Printed Books
General Catalogue of Printed Books
The British Museum's collection of 'art mobilier' comes almost entirely from Magdalenian sites in Aquitaine. It includes 134 items from the excavations in 1863 of Lartet and Christy at La...
From the first major discoveries in the 19th century, the painted panel and shroud portraits of Roman Egypt were a revelation to scholars and the public alike. Though the subjects...
Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors
Maya Glyphs
The portrait in the Renaissance has long been connected with the cult of personality which emerged in the 15th century and provoked people to record their features accurately for the...
"Comprising almost one thousand drawings and more than four hundred prints, the Malcolm collection was considered a preeminently important addition to the British Museum's holdings of old master drawings when...
Viking Coins of the Danelaw and of Dublin
Near Eastern Seals
Greek theatre was one of the glories of the ancient world. It survives not only in cultural traditions, but in plays which can still be read and seen and in...
Ancient China: Art and Archaeology
"At the dawn of European history, in the third millennium BC, the small Greek islands in the southern Aegean known as the Cyclades were home to a remarkable and distinctive...
The Parthenon sculptures collected by Lord Elgin nearly 200 years ago rank amongst the highest achievements of mankind. Since they went on display in the British Museum in 1817, artists,...