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
Technical Research Bulletin Volume
2 is live
The Museum's online journal of the conservation and scientific
study, not only of Museum objects, but of objects from around the
world is now live online. Volume three is available to order in
print.
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.