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A concise introductory guide to ancient Egypt. Each double page focuses on a particular period in...

How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Who was the first 'lesbian'? Were ancient Greek m...

This timely new edition brings the story up to date, with chapters on important acquisitions made...

Have you ever wished that you could read the beautiful hieroglyphic script of ancient Egypt for y...

From Morocco to the Coast of England

Silver in Late Antiquity

The coinage of the Kushan kings (1st to 4th centuries) and of their immediate successors the Sasa...

This book presents images and discussion of 20 English coin hoards, ranging in date from the 730s...

This portrait of Santa Isabel in over 600 pictures shows an island transformed by its colonial hi...

A beautifully illustrated book that demonstrates how artistic creativity existed thousands of yea...

Roman Provincial Coinage VIII

Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson

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 ...

From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were ins...

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...

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...

The collection of late hieratic religious papyri in the British Museum is one of the most importa...

The second and final publication of the British Museum's fieldwork at Kom Firin, presenting key f...

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...

Cameo glass represents the ultimate achievement in Roman luxury glass, and the British Museum has...

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...

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...

The British Museum holds the largest collection of Middle Kingdom stelae outside Egypt. This is t...

First complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, N...

This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference 'Ming:...

This volume presents for the first time an authoritative and systematic account of the coins mint...

Stamp seals were used in a similar way to modern signet rings: a negative object used to impress ...

This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first e...

A richly illustrated catalogue published to accompany a major British Museum exhibition to mark t...

Where the Egyptians have wall paintings, the ancient Near East has cylinder seals as the main sou...

Created and displayed as part of the major Grayson Perry exhibition at the British Museum in 2011...

For more than 300 years commercial fishermen working in the outer Thames estuary have recovered R...

This new publication brings together a range of leading scholars from Europe, America and the Mid...

v. 69- published by Spink & Son Limited.

By presenting rigorous situated histories of changing trainingregimen in different cultures, this...

In 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed to the British Museum the contents from the New...

From 1833¿8, Charles Masson (1800¿1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore...