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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Admonitions Scroll
A digital reproduction of
the original
Silver plate showing Shapur II
Silk princess painting
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Vale of York Hoard
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Ife head
Not currently on display
Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Ming banknote
Temporarily on display in Room 37
Dürer's Rhinoceros
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Pieces of eight
Temporarily on display in Room 37
Miniature of a Mughal prince
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Shadow puppet of Bima
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Mexican codex map
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Reformation centenary broadsheet
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle
Hokusai's The Great Wave
Temporarily on display in Room 3
Suffragette-defaced penny
Temporarily on display in Room 37
Hockney's In the Dull Village
No longer on display for conservation reasons
Credit card
Temporarily on display in Room 37
More about A History of the World Children's objects for BBC series Relic
61 Egyptian life and death: the
tomb-chapel of Nebamun
62 Egyptian death and afterlife:
mummies
64 Early Egypt
65 Sudan, Egypt and Nubia
66 Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt
69 Greek and Roman life
70 Roman Empire
71 Etruscan world
72 Ancient Cyprus
73 Greeks in Italy
40 Medieval Europe
45 Waddesdon Bequest
46 Europe 1400-1800
47 Europe 1800-1900
48 Europe 1900 to the present
49 Roman Britain
50 Britain and Europe
800 BC–AD 43
51 Ancient Europe 4000-800 BC
52 Ancient Iran
53 Ancient South Arabia
54 Ancient Turkey
55 Mesopotamia 1500 - 539 BC
56 Mesopotamia 6000 - 1500 BC
57-59 Ancient Levant
38-39 Clocks and watches
68 Money
35 Special exhibition
90 Prints and drawings
91 Special exhibition
69a Special exhibition
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