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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 18
Editorial This issue of BMSAES contains the proceedings of the Annual International Egyptological Colloquium, entitled Mariners and traders: Connections between the Red Sea littoral, Arabia and beyond, and Rudolfo Fattovich’s Raymond and Beverley Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology, ‘Egypt’s trade with Punt: Recent discoveries on the Red Sea coast,'...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 19
Editorial This issue of BMSAES contains three diverse contributions using various methods to explore aspects of New Kingdom to Late Antique Egypt. Using 3D models, Elaine Sullivan's work investigates the logistics of moving festival barks through the temple complex at Karnak in the New Kingdom. Emad Khalil's study examines the...British Museum
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 6
Volume six of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin comprises nine articles that encompass the examination of material from an extremely broad range of cultures and periods, from ancient Greece, Egypt and Afghanistan to Siberian and Native American objects, by way of voyages of trade and discovery in the latter...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus I. The long 19th century
The first part of a two-part survey of British contributions to the archaeology of Cyprus from the 18th century to the present day.Kiely, Thomas ; Ulbrich, Anja
Cyprus and archaeology
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Excavations at Kition-Bamboula 1879. Finds in the British Museum
A full account of the 1879 excavations at the site of Kition-Bamboula in Cyprus and the finds that were subsequently given to the British Museum.Kiely, Thomas ; Fourrier, Sabine
Cyprus and archaeology
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The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, Government Engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late 19th century Cyprus
An overview of the archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, a government engineer and private collector of Cypriote artefacts in late 19th-century Cyprus.Kiely, Thomas ; Merrillees, Robert
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Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality
This book publishes papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference convened by Dr Lo at the British Museum. Academics from diverse fields, including historians, anthropologists, sociologists and medics were asked to consider sports and body cultivation in East and West. By presenting histories of changing training regimen in different cultures, the...Lo, Vivienne
medicine, games, physical health, and Sports
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Acropolis Restored
Published to mark the completion of a 35-year long study and restoration of the magnificent buildings on the Athens Acropolis. The individual contributors tell the story for an English reading audience of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous generations on the Acropolis and then to...Bouras, Charalambos ; Ioannidou, Maria ; Jenkins, Ian
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Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum
This chronology lists the many hundreds of temporary exhibitions at the British Museum between 1838 and 2012. It includes the full range, from early displays of material in a few dedicated cases documented by a slim handlist of objects, to large-scale exhibitions accompanied by fully-illustrated catalogues.Bowring, Joanna
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Sir Aurel Stein, Colleagues and Collections
This volume, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Aurel Stein, presents papers about him, his colleagues and his collections.Wang, Helen
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Architectural Conservation of an Amun Temple in Sudan
Excavation of a 2000 year old Amun Temple at Dangeil in Sudan. Under the directorship of Drs Salah Mohammed Ahmed of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Khartoum and Julie R Anderson of the British Museum, London an excavation of the temple commenced in 2000. Dangeil is located to...Sweek, Tracey ; Anderson, Julie R ; Tanimoto, Satoko
conservation, Amun Temple, Sudan, and Dangeil
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 20
Editorial This issue provides a welcome cross-section of studies on museum collections (Van Aerde) and archives (Thomas and Villing), monuments in situ (Gregory and Davies) and results from British Museum fieldwork projects, new (Thomas and Villing) and completed (Davies). Elisabeth R. O'Connell Contents: Concepts of Egypt in Augustan Rome: Two...British Museum
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 7
The contents of the seventh volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin reflects the diverse collections held by the British Museum. The investigations they describe include not only studies made directly on objects but also encompass research that aims better to understand the history, technology and treatment of objects....British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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New Light on Old Glass: Recent Research on Byzantine Mosaics and Glass
Mosaics are perhaps the most outstanding examples of Byzantine art which survive, yet we know next to nothing about how they were made. Glass-making was a relatively sophisticated skill in the mediaeval world, yet no written documents survive from Byzantium about the methods used for making a mosaic or creating...Entwistle, Chris ; James, Liz
iconography, scientific research, trade and economic history, and Glass history
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The Hajj: Collected Essays
It is a sacred duty for Muslims, wherever they may reside, to go at least once in their lives to Mecca, the heartland of Islam. Now drawing millions of pilgrims annually, the Hajj is a powerful bond that brings Muslims together from across the world. Following on from the British...Porter, Venetia
Islam, Hajj, religion, archaeology, and history
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Hadrian: Art, Politics and Economy
This publication is based on papers presented at an academic conference that followed the British Museum’s exhibition Hadrian: Empire and Conflict. It offers new research by sixteen international experts on one of the most important Roman emperors. Their essays cover a wide range of aspects of Hadrian’s reign, which continues...Opper, Thorsten
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 21
Editorial This issue presents new work on Roman, Late Antique and Medieval Egyptian collections primarily in the UK, Germany and France. Several of the articles presented herein have their origins in aspects of presentations delivered at a workshop held in the British Museum Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department and entitled,...British Museum
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British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 8
The contents of the eighth volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin reflects the diverse collections held by the British Museum, with subjects ranging from an Aleut cape and cap to Ming dynasty paper money. Contents: Technical study of a rare Venetian turquoise glass goblet from the Waddesdon Bequest...British Museum
British Museum; scientific research; conservation; museum studies
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On the Antiquity of Cancer: Evidence for Metastatic Carcinoma in a Young Man from Ancient Nubia (c. 1200BC)
Cancer, one of the world's leading causes of death today, remains almost absent relative to other pathological conditions, in the archaeological record, giving rise to the conclusion that the disease is mainly a product of modern living and increased longevity. This paper presents a male, young-adult individual from the archaeological...Binder, Michaela ; Roberts, Charlotte ; Spencer, Neal ; Antoine, Daniel ; Cartwright, Caroline
Cancer and ancient Nubia
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Hominin footprints from Early Pleistocene deposits at Happisburgh, UK
Investigations at Happisburgh, UK, have revealed the oldest known hominin footprint surface outside Africa at between ca. 1 million and 0.78 million years ago. The site has long been recognised for the preservation of sediments containing Early Pleistocene fauna and flora, but since 2005 has also yielded humanly made flint...Ashton, Nick ; Lewis, Simon G. ; De Groote, Isabelle ; Duffy, Sarah M. ; Bates, Martin …
Happisburgh; human footprints; Lower Paleolithic; Early Pleistocene; Britain; Europe