Research projects
British Museum staff are constantly engaged in research projects
from fieldwork to cataloguing and scientific
investigation.
Search by the first letter of research project:
A
A.W. Franks and A.Way archive project (The)
Amara
West, Sudan
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project
Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Ringlemere, Kent
Application of Optical Coherence Tomography
(OCT) to the study of painted surfaces (The)
Archaeological iron
Archaeology of ritual in Gupta India: Udayagiri
and the establishment of the gods (The)
Ashurbanipal Library Phase 1
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B
Berber-Abidiya archaeological project (The)
British printed images to 1700
British Museum Siraf project
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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
Chairman Mao badges
Chinese painting
Cnidus (Return to)
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)
Cosmetic Grinders
Cyprus digitisation project
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D
Doctoral Research in Portable Antiquities
Scheme data and Roman Britain
Dunhuang Textiles in the UK
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E
East Leicestershire Hoards (Iron Age and
Roman) (The)
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
Etruscan by definition
Excavation in Egypt at Tell el-Balamun
Excavations at Grimes Graves
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F
Finds of Roman gold coins in Britain
Forum Novum/Vescovio
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G
Gold, textiles, trade, history and
identity in Mali and Ghana
Good Impressions: image and authority in medieval
seals
Greek and Roman surgical instruments and
medical objects in the British Museum
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H
Happisburgh
Hundred Years of Dunhuang,
1907-2007 (A)
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I
Indian Temple: Production, Place and Patronage
(The)
Investigation and application of laser (The)
Iron Age mirrors
Iron Age pottery and society in East Anglia
Italian Renaissance ceramics, a catalogue
of the British Museum’s collection, British Museum Press,
2007
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J
Jewellery in the age of Victoria: a social and
cultural history
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K
Kanga and other printed textiles of eastern and
southern Africa
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L
Late Antique Hagr Edfu (Settling the
cemeteries)
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M
Masson
Project
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)
Merv,
Turkmenistan
Money in Africa
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N
Naukratis: the Greeks in Egypt
Nile Delta of Egypt: Kom Firin (The)
Nimrud bowls
(The)
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O
Ottoman Science in the 19th Century
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P
Poor man’s silver? Pewter
tableware: its function, significance and contribution to our
understanding of life in Roman Britain
Pottery bowls from Miletos
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Q
Qing
ceramics
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R
Ramesseum
Papyri (The)
Reassessment of the uses and
limitations of numismatic evidence in the study of the societies of
late Pre-Roman Iron Age Britain (Collaborative Doctoral Award with
Birkbeck College, University of London (A)
Roman provincial
coinage
Roman shipwreck
project
Runnymede Research Excavations volume 3
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S
Sasanian
coin project
Sidon excavations
Snettisham Iron Age hoards: technology and
analysis
Star of Bethlehem – A journey through science and
art (The)
Synthesis and analysis of Portable Antiquities
Scheme and Treasure data
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T
Technologies of Enchantment: Early Celtic Art in
Britain
Tell es-Sa‘idiyeh Excavations
TIME
Tribal transitions: cultural change in Arunachal
Pradesh
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