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Of Kushite kings and sacred landscapes in the Middle Nile valley
An overview of Kushite kings and sacred landscapes in the Middle Nile Valley in a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade.Anderson, Julie
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The Early Islamic Trans-Saharan market towns of West Africa
In the early Islamic period, trade across the Sahara escalated to new levels as West African resources, including most significantly gold, were imported on camel caravans to the markets of North Africa and the wider Islamic world trade system, these goods being exchanged for products from North Africa such as...Nixon, Sam
early Islamic, trade, gold trade, West Africa, Sahel, Trans-Saharan, and urbanism
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Conversations with the past: the influence of Rembrandt, Ingres and Picasso on Hockney's graphic portraits
An ‘In Focus’ essay exploring the relationship between Hockney's graphic portraits, and works by Rembrandt, Ingres, and Picasso.Seligman, Isabel ; Howgate, Sarah
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The Rosetta Stone. Copying an ancient copy
Epigraphy and palaeography are ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook discusses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. The Handbook aims to • discuss current theories with regard to the...Regulski, Ilona
Egypt, Rosetta Stone, and Epigraphy
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Antique dealers and the British Museum
This volume is a catalogue with accompanying essays for the exhibition "Sold! The Great British Antiques Story" held at the Bowes Museum from 26th January - 5th May 2019. My contribution to this volume is an essay exploring one aspect of the relationship between the British Museum and antiques dealers....Jenkins, Adrian ; Jellinek, Dominic ; Gough, Georgina ; Coutts, Howard ; Conroy, Rachel …
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The ancient and early medieval coins from the Triconch Palace, c. 2nd century BC to c. AD 600
This report covers the ancient and early Byzantine coins found at the Butrint Foundation's excavations of the Triconch Palace (Butrint / Buthrotum Albania) in the 1990s-early 2000s. The British Museum was represented on the excavations by Sam Moorhead, Richard Abdy and Pippa Pearce MBE (who carried out much conservation). The...Moorhead, Sam
early medieval, Buthrotum, Moorhead, numismatics, Albania, Roman, Byzantine, coins, and Butrint
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Scientific study of the etching process used on ancient carnelian beads
Etched carnelian beads are a striking example of the very high level of technological skills developed by ancient civilisations to create ornament and jewellery. This study combines the characterisation of etched areas of archaeological beads from the British Museum collection with the experimental etching of modern carnelian in laboratory conditions,... -
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Sex and sensitivities: exhibiting and interpreting Shunga at the British Museum
For much of the British Museum's long history it has had a difficult relationship with sex, sexuality, and gender diversity. Most museums and galleries have been reticent to display publicly, or meaningfully interpret, objects that explicitly reflect these themes, or which challenge society’s heteronormative ideals. The museum’s special exhibition program...Frost, Stuart
British Museum, interpretation, exhibitions, shunga, gender, sexuality, and visitor research
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Change and transformation: Picasso the printmaker
An analysis of Picasso's activities as a printmaker being dependent on his proximity to printers and their workshops at different periods during his career.Hincelin, Emmanuelle ; Andres, Violette ; Lloyd, Christopher ; Philippot, Emilia ; Robinson, William H. …
collaboration, Picasso, printmaking, and printers
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The results of new scientific analyses of gold bracelets from Taksai-1 and an iron sword from Issyk in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
The British Museum held the BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia from September 2017 to January 2018. Among the many exhibits were several important objects dating from the early Iron Age on loan from the collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including two gold bracelets...Lang, Janet ; O'Flynn, Daniel ; Mongiatti, Aude ; Yarygin, S. A. ; Satubaldin, A. K.
gold, Issyk, bracelets, akinakes, scientific research, Taksai-1, and Early nomads
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Buildings with a message - experimenting with a rich mosaic of objects and voices
The world has changed. How will society emerge post-pandemic? Will we take the opportunity to reset the status quo? And, if so, what possibilities are there for architects to take the initiative in designing this new world? This innovative design guide draws together expert guidance on designing in the immediate...Jansari, Sushma
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The Early Middle Palaeolithic of Britain and Jersey: reconnecting the Saalian occupations of the Channel Region
The Early Middle Palaeolithic of southern Britain is best represented by the record recovered from within the terraces of the Thames, within which some attempt has been made to correlate particular sites to substage level within MIS 7. It has been suggested that there are particular features of the British...Scott, Beccy ; Ashton, Nick ; Shaw, Andrew ; Pope, Matthew
Jersey, Lithic industry., Early Middle Palaeolithic, Channel River, and Southern England
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Foreword to Living with Art
This foreword to the publication by Catherine Daunt outlines how the author became involved with the collector Alexander Walker (1930-2003) and the circumstances leading to his Bequest of his collection of modern works on paper to the British MuseumCoppel, Stephen
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Impressions and expressions: searching for the origins of basketry
Fibre-based technologies do not preserve well in the archaeological record, but evidence shows that sophisticated textile technologies date back 30,000 years or more in Europe. This evidence suggests that weaving was not in its infancy but could be considerably older to appear so fully formed during the Upper Palaeolithic. This...Anderson, Helen
Basketry, cognition, pattern, Africa, and neuroscience
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Understanding wood choices for ancient panel painting and mummy portraits in the APPEAR project through scanning electron microscopy
In Roman-period Egypt, it is clear that despite maintaining the traditional practice of mummification, there was a fashion for funerary portraiture that echoed Greek and Roman traditions in the Mediterranean region. The excellent condition of preservation of the wood anatomy of these mummy portraits enabled an unexpected revelation from their...Cartwright, Caroline
Egypt, scanning electron microscopy, timber, Roman period, wood anatomy, and mummy portraits
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The sound of little feet at the British Museum
The British Museum is an iconic space housing objects from across time and around the world. As part of the public programme the Schools and Young Audiences Team run under 5s provision using different spaces and objects as inspiration for activities which encourage participation, exploration and enjoyment. In this chapter...Kelland, Kate ; Hoare, Katharine
learning, under5s, creative, activities, Museum, and galleries
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A passion for prints: Netherlandish engravings in an early sixteenth-century prayer book
An extraordinary prayer book manuscript dated c. 1530, recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), shows that printed images became recognized as a collectible category of art much earlier than is commonly understood. The manuscript includes 16 masterfully hand-coloured engravings by Netherlandish printmakers, including Lucas van Leyden’s 12-print series, the Engraved...Horbatsch, Olenka
Lucas van Leyden, manuscript, hand-coloured, engravings, Netherlandish, modified prints, etchings, Frans Crabbe, and prints