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

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

 

B

Berber-Abidiya archaeological project (The)

British printed images to 1700

British Museum Siraf project

 

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

 

D

Doctoral Research in Portable Antiquities Scheme data and Roman Britain

Domuztepe project

Dunhuang Textiles in the UK

 

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)

Etruscan by definition

Excavation in Egypt at Tell el-Balamun

Excavations at Grimes Graves

 

F

Finds of Roman gold coins in Britain

Forum Novum/Vescovio

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

Happisburgh

Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007 (A)

 

 

I

Inca ushnus: landscape, site and symbol in the Andes

Indian Temple: Production, Place and Patronage (The)

Interventive conservation of black-dyed organic materials

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

 

J

Jewellery in the age of Victoria: a social and cultural history

 

K

Kanga and other printed textiles of eastern and southern Africa

Kom Firin, Egypt

 

L

Late Antique Hagr Edfu (Settling the cemeteries)

 

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

 

N

Naukratis: the Greeks in Egypt

Nimrud bowls (The)

 

O

Ottoman Science in the 19th Century

 

P

Poor man’s silver? Pewter tableware: its function, significance and contribution to our understanding of life in Roman Britain

Pottery bowls from Miletos

 

Q

Qing ceramics

 

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

 

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

 

T

Technologies of Enchantment: Early Celtic Art in Britain

Tell es-Sa‘idiyeh Excavations

Tribal transitions: cultural change in Arunachal Pradesh