British Museum Technical
Research Bulletin

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Department of Conservation and Scientific Research 

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The Technical Research Bulletin publishes the results of collaborative work by the British Museum's curators, conservators and scientists covering a broad range of objects and materials from across the Museum’s collection.

Published once a year, each issue aims to encompass objects from different continents, historical periods and material types. The Bulletin is designed to appeal both to those with a general interest in the Museum’s collections and those with a specialist interest who wish to broaden their horizons.

Volume 1

Examines some of the different material aspects of objects in the Museum collection.

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Volume 2

Detailing the assessment, examination, treatment and analysis of objects from across the Museum’s collections and beyond.

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Volume 3

Shedding light on cultures from the ancient civilisations of the world.

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Volume 4

Papers on exploring the evidence for cultural transmission and trade to questions of object attribution and authenticity.

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Volume 5

Articles reflecting the chronological depth and geographical breadth of the British Museum collection.

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Shell ewer from Gujarat, India

Volume 6

Available now in hard copy and online in Autumn 2013:

  • The fall and rise of a Roman statue: the Kew Gardens Hermes
  • The Norwich shroud: conservation and investigation of a rare Eighteenth Dynasty shroud
  • A radioactive shamanic apron with glass disease
  • Hidden, looted, saved: the scientific research and conservation of a group of Begram ivories from the National Museum of Afghanistan
  • Hidden history?: examination of two patches on John White’s map of ‘Virginia’
  • An economic history of the post-Medieval world in 50 ingots: the British Museum collection of ingots from dated wrecks
  • Identification of hairs and fibres in Great Lakes objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries using variable pressure scanning electron microscopy
  • Investigating and interpreting an early-to-mid sixth-century Frankish style helmet
  • Archaeobotanical research in a pharaonic town in ancient Nubia