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- Kom Firin I: the Ramesside temple and site survey
- European Visions: American Voices
- Money in Africa
- Chairman Mao badges: symbols and Slogans of the Cultural Revolution
- Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon glass in the British Museum
- Crimean jewellery
- The Lachish collection at the British Museum
- A Naos of Nekhthorheb from Bubastis: Religious Iconography and Temple building in the 30th Dynasty
- Metallurgical analysis of Chinese coins at the British Museum
- Handbook to the Stein collections in the UK
- Cleaning and controversy: the Parthenon sculptures
- Sir Aurel Stein
- HSBC Money Gallery
- Access to Museum Culture
- Durer and his legacy
- Stone Age artefacts
- Etruscan bucchero ware
- The Ringlemere Cup: precious cups and the beginning of the Channel Bronze Age
- Prehistoric Metal artefacts from Italy in the British Museum
- Ancient Caucasian and related material in the British Museum
- Good impressions: image authority in Medieval seals
- Intelligible Beauty: recent research on Byzantine jewellery
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
- The Cultural, Regional and Personal identity of the Etruscans
- Cosmetic sets of late Iron Age and Roman Britain
- Online research catalogues
- A catalogue of Russian Icons
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
- Preface
- Chronological chart of Ancient Cyprus
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
- Introduction
- History of excavations in the Kourion area
- History, culture and burial customs
- Guide to the collection
- Kourion in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
- Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
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- A catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his School in the British Museum
- Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum
- Paper money of England and Wales
- Online journals
- British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES)
- Issue 17
- Issue 16
- BMSAES: Issue 15
- Burkhard Backes: Three funerary papyri from Thebes: New evidence on scribal and funerary practice in the Late Period
- John Gee: The Book of the Dead as canon
- Bridget Leach and Richard B. Parkinson: Creating borders: New insights into making the Papyrus of Ani
- Giuseppina Lenzo: The two funerary papyri of Queen Nedjmet (P. BM EA 10490 and P. BM EA 10541 + Louvre E. 6258)
- Rita Lucarelli: The guardian-demons of the Book of the Dead
- Barbara Lüscher: In the footsteps of Edouard Naville (1844–1926)
- Malcom Mosher, Jr: An intriguing Theban Book of the Dead tradition in the Late Period
- Marcus Müller-Roth: Memphis-Thebes: local traditions in the Late Period
- Marcus Müller-Roth: The Book of the Dead Project: Past, present and future
- Irmtraut Munro: Evidence of a master copy transferred from Thebes to the Memphis area in Dynasty 26
- Chloe Ragazzoli: The Book of the Dead of Ankhesenaset. Traces of workshop production or scribal experiments?
- Maarten J. Raven: Book of the Dead documents from the New Kingdom
- Isabelle Régen: When a Book of the Dead text does not match archaeology: the case of the protective magical bricks
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- Issue 1
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- 2011
- Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
- Treasures of Heaven
- British Museum video: an introduction to the exhibition Treasures of Heaven
- British Museum video: Holy Thorn reliquary
- British Museum video: Medieval goldsmiths
- British Museum Video: The installation of the St Baudime reliquary
- British Museum video: The story of St Ursula
- British Museum video: Modern veneration
- Afghanistan
- British Museum video: Exhibition introduction
- British Museum video: Glass blowing
- British Museum video: The story of the hidden treasures
- British Museum video: Installing the crown
- British Museum video: Opening ceremony
- British Museum video: Returning ivories
- British Museum video: The Greek legacy
- British Museum audio - Music of Afghanistan: Herati song tune Mui Talai
- British Museum audio - Music of Afghanistan: Nagmeh–ye Klasik in Rag Des
- British Museum audio - Music of Afghanistan: Chaharbeiti Shomali
- British Museum audio - Music of Afghanistan: Filmi song Chal Chal Chal mere Sathi
- Video credits
- Australian season
- British Museum video: Introducing the Australian season
- British Museum video: Building the Australian landscape
- British Museum video: Introduction to the landscape
- British Museum audio: Surviving fire - Balga, Xanthorrhoea preissii
- British Museum audio: Surviving conflict - Bark shield
- British Museum audio: Surviving death - Painted log coffin
- British Museum audio: Surviving drought - Sidney Nolan (1917–1992)
- British Museum audio: Surviving journeys - Rare water container made of seaweed
- An installation by Xu Bing: Background Story 7
- Sikh fortress turban
- Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
- British Museum video: An introduction to the exhibition Journey through the afterlife ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
- British Museum video: Ancient Egyptian Baboon deity
- British Museum video: Ancient Egyptian coffin
- British Museum video: Ancient Egyptian coffin mask
- British Museum video: Ancient Egyptian coffin panel
- British Museum video: Ancient Egyptian papyrus
- British Museum video: Ancient Egyptian scribal pallets
- British Museum video: Book of the Dead schools film
- British Museum video: Voxpops at the Book of the Dead exhibition
- China: Journey to the East
- British Museum video: an introduction to the Adornment and identity exhibition
- 2011
- Events
- Object stories
- A History of the World
- Talking Objects
- British Museum video: Ain Sakhri lovers figurine
- British Museum video: Jade terrapin
- British Museum video: The Great Wave
- British Museum video: Throne of Weapons
- British Museum video: Swimming reindeer
- British Museum video: Ife head
- British Museum video: The Museum as object
- British Museum video: Sikh fortress turban
- British Museum video: the Nef
- British Sign Language
- Room 1: Enlightenment
- British Sign Language video: Taino ritual seat
- British Sign Language video: The Stockbridge urn
- British Sign Language video: James Stephanoff, An Assemblage of Works of Art
- British Sign Language video: Hans Sloane's collection of shells
- British Sign Language video: The Sloane Astrolabe
- British Sign Language video: The Raffles Gamelan
- British Sign Language video: The Piranesi Vase
- British Sign Language video: Bone comb from New Zealand
- British Sign Language video: Moche warrior pot
- British Sign Language video: Maya maize god statue
- British Sign Language video: Introduction to the Enlightenment
- British Sign Language video: Dr Dee's mirror
- British Sign Language video: Bust of Sir Robert Smirke
- British Sign Language video: Australian bark shield
- Room 2: Changing Museum
- British Sign Language video: Swimming reindeer
- British Sign Language video: Olduvai handaxe
- British Sign Language video: Olduvai stone chopping tool
- British Sign Language video: Miniature gold llama figurine
- British Sign Language video: Bird-shaped pestle
- British Sign Language video: Ain Sakhri lovers figurine
- Room 4: Egyptian sculpture
- British Sign Language video: The Rosetta Stone
- British Sign Language video: Statue of Ramesses II, the 'Younger Memnon'
- British Sign Language video: List of the kings of Egypt from the Temple of Ramesses II
- British Sign Language video: Bronze figure of a seated cat
- British Sign Language video: Granodiorite barque bearing a statue of Queen Mutemwia in the guise of the goddess Mut
- British Sign Language video: Limestone false door of Ptahshepses
- Room 6: Assyrian sculpture and Balawat Gates
- Room 7-8 Assyria: Nimrud
- Room 9 Assyria: Nineveh
- Room 10: Assyria
- British Sign Language video - Lachish relief: Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, no. 10)
- British Sign Language video: Colossal winged bull from the Palace of Sargon II
- British Sign Language video: Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 19)
- Room 11 Greece: Cycladic Islands
- Room 12 Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans
- Room 14: Greek vases
- Room 15: Athens and Lycia
- Room 17: Nereid Monument
- Room 18 Greece: Parthenon sculptures
- British Sign Language video: Parthenon - west pediment
- British Sign Language video: Tray bearers from the Parthenon frieze
- British Sign Language video: Sculptures of three goddesses from the east pediment of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Parthenon sculpture of a peeding chariot
- British Sign Language video: Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Parthenon sculpture of a running girl
- British Sign Language video: Figure of a river-god from the west pediment of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video - Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith
- British Sign Language video: Figure of Iris from the west pediment of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Introduction to the Parthenon sculptures
- British Sign Language video: Horsemen from the west frieze of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Gesturing horseman from the west frieze of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Parthenon sculpture of Helios
- British Sign Language video: The gods of the frieze of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Parthenon sculpture of female bearers on foot
- British Sign Language video: Parthenon - East Pediment
- British Sign Language video: Figure of Dionysos from the east pediment of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Chariot group from the south frieze of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Central scene of the east frieze of the Parthenon
- British Sign Language video: Figure of Athena and Poseidon
- Room 19 Greece: Athens
- Room 20: Greeks and Lycians
- Room 21: Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
- Room 22: The world of Alexander
- Room 23: Greek and Roman sculpture
- Room 24: Living and Dying
- British Sign Language video: Ancestor figure from the Solomon Islands
- British Sign Language video: Lintel of a meeting house (pare)
- British Sign Language video: Hoa Hakananai'a
- British Sign Language video: Coffin in the shape of an eagle
- British Sign Language video: Rock crystal skull
- British Sign Language video: Dog-sled (uniek)
- Room 25: Africa
- British Sign Language video: Throne of weapons
- British Sign Language video: Sudanese slit drum
- British Sign Language video: Carving of Queen Victoria
- British Sign Language video: Ndop, wooden carving of King Shyaam aMbul aNgoong
- British Sign Language video: Kozo, the double-headed dog
- British Sign Language video: Kilwa pot sherds
- British Sign Language video - Ife head: Brass head of a ruler
- British Sign Language video: Ceramic altar for the new yam harvest festival
- British Sign Language video: Commemorative head of a Queen Mother
- British Sign Language video: Brass plaque showing the Oba of Benin with attendants
- Room 26: North America
- Room 27: Mexico
- Room 33: China, South Asia and Southeast Asia
- British Sign Language video: Statue of Tara
- British Sign Language video: Stoneware luohan
- British Sign Language video: Shiva and Parvati sculpture
- British Sign Language video: Seated Buddha from Gandhara
- British Sign Language video: Jade bi
- British Sign Language video: Pillar of Emperor Ashoka
- British Sign Language video: Jade cong
- British Sign Language video: Indus seal
- British Sign Language video: Gold coin of Kumaragupta I
- British Sign Language video: Cloisonné jar
- British Sign Language video: Chinese Zhou ritual vessel (gui)
- British Sign Language video: Chinese Tang tomb figures
- British Sign Language video: Chinese Han lacquer cup
- British Sign Language video: Chinese bronze bell
- British Sign Language video: Borobudur Buddha head
- British Sign Language video: Bronze figure of Nataraja
- Room 33a: Amaravati
- Room 33b: Chinese jade
- Room 34: The Islamic world
- British Sign Language video: Harem wall painting fragments
- British Sign Language video: Shi'a religious parade standard
- British Sign Language video: Mosque lamp
- British Sign Language video: Carved jade terrapin
- British Sign Language video: Decorated footed basin
- British Sign Language video: Hedwig glass beaker
- British Sign Language video: Gold coin of Abd al-Malik
- Room 38-39: Clocks and Watches
- British Sign Language video: The Mostyn made by Thomas Tompion
- British Sign Language video: The mechanical galleon
- British Sign Language video: Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle
- British Sign Language video: Cassiobury Park turret clock
- British Sign Language video: Astronomical longcase clock by Edward Cockey
- Room 40: Medieval Europe
- Room 41: Europe 300-1100 AD
- Room 45: Waddesdon Bequest
- Room 46: Europe 1400-1800
- Room 47: Europe 1800-1900
- Room 48: Europe 1900 to the present
- Room 49: Roman Britain
- British Sign Language video: Writing-tablet with a letter invitation to Sulpicia Lepidina
- British Sign Language video: The Mildenhall treasure
- British Sign Language video: The Hoxne Hoard
- British Sign Language video: The Hinton St Mary Mosaic
- British Sign Language video: Bronze head of the Emperor Claudius
- Room 50: Britain and Europe 800 BC - AD 43
- Room 51: Europe and Middle East 10,000 - 800 BC
- Room 52: Ancient Iran
- Room 53: Ancient South Arabia
- Room 54: Ancient Turkey
- Room 55: Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC
- Room 56: Mesopotamia 6000-1500 BC
- Room 57-9: Ancient Levant
- Room 61: Ancient Egyptian life and death
- Room 62-3 Egyptian death and afterlife: mummies
- Room 64: Early Egypt
- Room 65: Egypt and Nubia
- Room 67: Korea
- British Sign Language video: Wooden duck
- British Sign Language video: Stone standing figures
- British Sign Language video: Set of armour
- British Sign Language video: Korean roof tile
- British Sign Language video: Chaekkori, an 8-fold screen painting
- British Sign Language video: White porcelain 'moon jar'
- British Sign Language video: Lacquered sutra box
- British Sign Language video: Stoneware kundika (water sprinkler)
- Room 68: Money
- British Sign Language video: Suffragette-defaced penny
- British Sign Language video: Silver 50 reales of Philip III of Spain
- British Sign Language video: Chinese Ming banknote
- British Sign Language video: Gold imitation dinar of Offa
- British Sign Language video: Gold coin of Croesus
- British Sign Language video: Cowrie shells
- Room 69: Greek and Roman life
- Room 70: Roman Empire
- Room 71: Etruscan world
- Room 72: Ancient Cyprus
- Room 73: Greeks in Italy
- Room 90: Prints and drawings
- Rooms 92-94: Japan
- Room 95: Chinese Ceramics
- Room 1: Enlightenment
What’s on
- Exhibitions
- Adornment and identity
- Artistic legacies of Herat
- Australian season
- Traditional jewellery and dress from the Balkans
- Crocodile dance mask
- Eric Gill: public and private art
- Hokusai's Great Wave Japanese
- Hokusai's Great Wave
- Treasures of Heaven
- WCEC artist in residence
- Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
- Shakespeare: staging the world
- Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam
- Modern Syrian art
- Cost of living
- German Romantic prints
- Mine to medals
- Manga at the British Museum
- Holy Sepulchre
- Events calendar
- Friday late opening
- UK touring exhibitions and loans
- Ancient Greeks
- Egyptology Galleries, Great North Museum
- Uncovered, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
- Didcot Hoard
- Creswell Crags Museum
- Egyptian Treasures at the new Kelvingrove
- The Egypt Centre
- The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours
- The Riesco Collection gallery
- Seals by the Sea
- ‘Capability’ Brown and the landscapes of Middle England
- A Glimmer in the Earth: the Treasures of Rhayader & its Region
- Revolution on Paper
- Vindolanda Tablets
- Constable and Salisbury
- The Hepworth Wakefield
- John Garstang and the Discovery of the Hittite World
- Pharaoh: King of Egypt
- China: Journey to the East
- Toulouse-Lautrec Prints
- The Lewis Chessmen
- Roman frontier
- People of Sutton Hoo
- Warriors of the Plain
- Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations
- Ashmolean New Egyptian Gallery
- Parviz Tarnavoli’s ‘Heech in a Cage’
- The Romance of the Middle Ages
- International touring exhibitions and loans
Learning
- Schools and teachers
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- A question for the people
- African maths KS1
- Africa adorned
- African tales KS1
- Art inSIGHT
- Celebrating Athens
- Celebrating China
- Change over time in ancient Britain
- Classics study day
- Excavation in Egypt
- Gallery art workshops
- How to find out about Greek life
- Islam: art and belief
- Japanese printmaking
- London Anthropology Day
- Japan sessions
- Looking at Egyptian life
- Looking at Egyptian mummies
- Looking at Greek myths
- Looking at the people of Benin
- Maths challenge
- Medieval history
- Meet the Aztecs: mission to Mexico
- Mycenaean Greece
- Objects in focus
- Printmaking for young artists
- Eating and drinking in Roman Britain
- Science and the stars
- Greek temples: worshipping the gods
- Multimedia magic
- Museum detectives
- Music of Africa
- Painting for the afterlife
- Around the world: make a podcast
- Sutton Hoo headline
- Taught handling sessions SEN
- The Persian wars
- In the belly of the horse
- SDDC: ICT for Early Years
- SDDC: ICT for SEN
- Looking at Egypt: afterlife
- Grayson Perry: gallery art workshops
- Hajj: primary workshop
- Hajj: secondary workshop
- Local archaeology
- Courses for teachers
- Planning a visit to the British Museum
- Special educational needs training sessions
- Tailor-made courses
- Teaching enquiry through ancient Egypt
- Using a sketchbook: developing good practice
- Visits without worksheets
- A&D: essential practical skills
- Engaging with art
- Make your own mini museum
- Hajj: teacher's private view
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- The Parthenon sculptures: facts and figures
- The 1930s cleaning of the Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum
- Introduction
- Cleaning the Sculptures 1811-1936
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- Evaluation of the Documentary Evidence
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