New insights into the collection
Museum curators, conservators, scientists,
educators and people from across the world develop and share new
perspectives on cultures and time periods.
Featured research project
Daphnae – where Greece met
Egypt
Now called Tell Dafana, the seventh century BC
settlement of Daphnae in the Nile Delta of Egypt was a meeting
point for the great cultures of ancient Egypt and Greece.
Research news
Online journal peers into the Bronze
Age
The British Museum's new online journal, Bronze Age
Review is dedicated to furthering understanding of Britain and
Europe in around 2,500 BC – 800 BC.
Published here on the Museum website it aims to provide an
invaluable resource for the study of this period.
Online research catalogues
Ancient Cyprus in the British
Museum
An online research catalogue devoted to the British Museum's
ancient Cyprus collection.
In the first part of a growing catalogue,
discover 1,800 objects excavated at the Late Bronze Age town
of Enkomi.
Research facilities
Search more than 1,500,000 objects from the Museum’s collection
online.
Museum facilities are accessible to members of the public
wishing to carry out their own work.