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Counting when, who and how: visualizing the British Museum’s history of acquisition through collection data, 1753–2019

MacDonald, Isobel

Keywords: British Museum; collection; database; history of collecting

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Molecular analysis of black coatings and anointing fluids from ancient Egyptian coffins, mummy cases, and funerary objects

Fulcher, Kate ; Serpico, Margaret ; Taylor, John H. ; Stacey, Rebecca

Keywords: archaeology; ancient Egypt; coffins; mass spectrometry; chromatography

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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 26

Keywords: wall paintings; Ancient Egyptian painting;

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Pots, Prints and Politics: Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century

Ferguson, Patricia F.

Keywords: European art, Asian art, Ceramics

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Weathering climate change in archaeology: conceptual challenges and an East African case study

Petek-Sargeant, Nik ; Lane, Paul J.

Keywords: Weather, Climate change, Kenya, Environmental humanities, East Africa, Ilchamus

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The Berthier-Delagarde Collection of Crimean Jewellery in the BM and Related Material

Andrási, Júlia

Keywords: early medieval, jewellery, Crimea

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Celtes de l’Ouest (Britain, nord, centre et sud de la Gaule, Allemagne, Italie et Suisse)

Genechesi, Julia ; Ghey, Eleanor ; Hiriart, Eneko

Keywords: numismatics, Iron Age

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From Pertinax to the reform of Diocletian (AD 193–294)

Keywords: numismatics, Roman

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China

Jankowski, Lyce ; Wang, Helen

Keywords: numismatics, China

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Introduction (East and South East Asia)

Keywords: South East Asia, numismatics, East Asia

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Protecting Three-Dimensional Museum Collections During Transport: Engineering and Evaluation of Transport Crates Featuring Wire-Rope Isolators for Improved Vibration Mitigation

Kotonski, Verena ; Kracht, Kerstin ; York, Evan ; Barton, Caroline

Keywords: wire-rope isolator, transit, packing, vibration

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The six recipes of Zhou: a new perspective on Jin (金) and Xi (锡)

Pollard, A.M. ; Liu, Ruiliang

Keywords: Bronze Age, China, metallurgy, six recipes, alloying practices, ancient Chinese texts

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