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Valorizing the ordinary – documenting the vernacular heritage of Shutb village
'The British Museum Asyut Region Project' aims at reconstructing and preserving the deep history of the Asyut region in Middle Egypt through survey and documentation of its pharaonic and post-pharaonic heritage, including the varied responses of local communities living atop the layers of history below. The village of Shutb, 5...Shama, Heba ; Ibrahim, Kareem ; Regulski, Ilona
urban fabric, Middle Egypt, and Asyut
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Sloane's antiquities: providing a "body of history" through beads, bottles, brasses and busts
Sir Hans Sloane, Secretary and then President of the Royal Society, presented the Society of Antiquaries with the bronze lamp which became the symbol of their society but he was never a Fellow. Sloane’s collection included more than 2,000 antiquities, described in his own manuscript catalogue of his collections, the...Sloan, Kim
Society of Antiquaries, antiquities, Hans Sloane, and collecting history
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Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum
Stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period, attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. The survival of large numbers of the seals, many dating from the period that was crucial to the development of...Granger Taylor, Hero ; Cowell, Mike ; Egan, Geoff
early modern history, medieval history, Seals, and history of textiles
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Divine depictions: first representations of gods in Egypt
Ancient Egyptian iconography is characterised by the depictions of gods and goddesses. The number of deities appearing on tomb and temple walls and in religious literature grew steadily throughout the Pharaonic period. As foreign influences shaped, consolidated and altered the Egyptian identity, assimilations and comparisons with foreign gods enriched the...Regulski, Ilona
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Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond
Twenty-four papers from a 1992 conference at the British Museum at which archaeologists and scientists met to discuss current scientific projects and approaches to the study of the Early Modern period. The essays here are divided into six themes: North American contact studies, ceramic studies, glass studies, precious metal studies,...Hook, Duncan ; Gaimster, David
metalwork, exchange, Trade, archaeology, glass studies, ceramics, and Early Modern history