Research projects
British Museum staff are constantly engaged in research projects all over the world. They range from fieldwork to object cataloguing and scientific investigation.
View the location of the research projects on the map below
Research projects in alphabetical order
A
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project
Ancient maritime pitch and tar: a multi-disciplinary study of sources, technology and preservation
Andean textiles: organic colourants, biological sources and dyeing technologies
Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Ringlemere, Kent
Application of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to the study of painted surfaces (The)
Archaeology of ritual in Gupta India: Udayagiri and the establishment of the gods (The)
Ashwell Roman treasure and excavation
Astrolabes in Medieval Jewish Society
B
Berber-Abidiya archaeological project (The)
British printed images to 1700
British Museum collection of gothic ivory carvings
C
Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his circle
Catalogue of the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Part 2)
Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Cylinder Seals IV. the Second Millennium BC (Continued from Cylinder Seals III.)
Catalogue of Visigothic artefacts from Spain and Southern France in the British Museum
Coins from Butrint: Numismatic research on archaeological excavation
Coins from the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii
Conservation and redisplay of the Nebamun Wall paintings (The)
Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors (Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum)
D
Doctoral Research in Portable Antiquities Scheme data and Roman Britain
E
East Leicestershire Hoards (Iron Age and Roman) (The)
Egyptian – Greek relations at Daphnae (Nile Delta)
Egyptian stelae in the British Museum from the thirteenth to seventeenth dynasties
Establishing a methodology for the care and conservation of the Orthodox icons collection at the British Museum
Establishment of museums in colonial East Africa and their transformation after independence (The)
Excavation in Egypt at Tell el-Balamun
F
Finds of Roman gold coins in Britain
G
Gold, textiles, trade, history and identity in Mali and Ghana
Gold glass in late antiquity: the British Museum collection (Doctoral research)
Good Impressions: image and authority in medieval seals
Greek and Roman surgical instruments and medical objects in the British Museum
H
Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007 (A)
I
Inca ushnus: landscape, site and symbol in the Andes
Indian Ocean ceramic trade: 500-1000 AD
Indian Temple: Production, Place and Patronage (The)
Interventive conservation of black-dyed organic materials
Investigation and application of laser (The)
Iron Age pottery and society in East Anglia
Italian Renaissance ceramics, a catalogue of the British Museum’s collection
J
Jewellery in the age of Victoria: a social and cultural history
Jewellery and men in Tudor and Jacobean England
K
Kanga and other printed textiles of eastern and southern Africa
Knossos Urban Landscape Project
M
Melanesian art: objects, narratives and indigenous owners
MENCAWAR [Mediterranean Network for Cataloguing and Web fruition of Ancient artworks and inscriptions]: Cataloguing the ancient South Arabia collection in the British Museum
Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project: Amri to Kirbekan Survey (AKS)
Mildenhall Treasure project (the)
Ming: courts and contacts, AD 1400 – 1450
N
Naukratis: the Greeks in Egypt
P
Paper museum of Cassiano dal pozzo (the)
Patterns of monetisation and coin use in England and Wales during the Middle Ages
Politics, ritual and religion: state formation in early India
Q
R
Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings made in Spain
Runnymede Research Excavations volume 3
S
Snettisham Iron Age hoards: technology and analysis
Synthesis and analysis of Portable Antiquities Scheme and Treasure data
T
Technologies of Enchantment: Early Celtic Art in Britain
Tribal transitions: cultural change in Arunachal Pradesh
U
Understanding the distribution of archaeological objects
British Museum good research practice
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