Have you ever wished that you could read the beautiful hieroglyphic script of ancient Egypt for y...
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A concise introductory guide to ancient Egypt. Each double page focuses on a particular period in...
A comprehensive study of the Kushan dynasty and their coins, revealing political, cultural, and r...
This book presents images and discussion of 20 English coin hoards, ranging in date from the 730s...
In 1994, the remains of a 17th-century shipwreck were discovered by divers off Salcombe Bay. The ...
The British Museum holds one of the most extensive collections of Late Antique silver plate in th...
This volume presents for the first time an authoritative and systematic account of the coins mint...
The word 'samurai' stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of ...
Discover Hawaiʻi's indigenous culture, history and enduring relationship with foreign nations thr...
A new title in the British Museum's Object in Focus series that unpacks the history of a fascinat...
Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the worl...
Drawing on the cuisine of the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman Empire to Henry VIII's brea...
An exciting, wide-ranging exploration of the power and diversity of female figures of worship in ...
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From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were ins...
This second volume of haiku focusing on the animal kingdom takes you on a journey through a singl...
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Beautifully illustrated with an array of Japanese art, this book offers a closer look at the rich...
For nearly three hundred years, from the end of the eighth century AD until approximately 1100, t...
This book tells the unique story of this exquisitely crafted Roman silver drinking cup, engraved ...
For 7,000 years seals have functioned as signs of authority. This publication deals specifically ...
The hoard of Roman-British temple treasure discovered at Ashwell in 2002 provides fascinating new...
The location known as 'A Riverine Site Near York (ARSNY)' represents a category of Viking site kn...
This book presents the proceedings of the 2009 conference relating to the 2008 exhibition at the ...
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiia...
Latin inscriptions can appear dauntinga jumble of letters without any structure or meaning. Howev...
This beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of a wide array of Indian art. It highligh...
A comprehensive catalogue of inscriptions from the Gwalior area of central India. Between the 3rd...
The first full publication of the monumental granite naos of King Nekhthorheb (360-343 BC), origi...
Following on the British Museum¿s critically acclaimed exhibitionHajj: journey to the heart of Is...
This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference 'Ming:...
The ancient Cypriot collections of the British Museum have inspired the essays in this volume in ...
A volume exploring the ramifications of placing objects first and foremost in the comparative stu...
This is the fifth in a series of fasicules publishing tne British Museum's programme of research ...
Beautifully illustrated gift book on the prints and drawings of Albrecht Dürer, the first truly i...
This illustrated and light-hearted volume tells the history of the tradition of pretence and rebe...
Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. In part this i...
Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the statue and contextual images, and including archi...
A richly illustrated poetry anthology featuring beautiful images of birds from around the world
Written by the leading authority on the subject, the catalogue focuses on the entire non-numismat...
Discovered in Suffolk in 1942, the Mildenhall Treasure is one of the most important collections o...
A landmark publication of essays resulting from the Treasures from Heaven conference at the Briti...
Millions of Chairman Mao badges were produced during China's Cultural Revolution, and were worn b...
This catalogue is the definitive publication of a mid-20th Dynasty papyrus that seems to have bee...
Since its arrival at the British Museum in 1891 the Aigina Treasure a group of Greek Bronze Age g...
The British Museum's collection of 'art mobilier' comes almost entirely from Magdalenian sites in...
This book presents and explores the Waddesdon Bequest, the name given to the Kunstkammer or cabin...
The Rosetta Stone contains a decree written three times in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphic that p...
This catalogue, written in German, describes for the first time the outstanding collection of six...