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Corroded ruin or hidden treasure? An early dynastic copper-alloy cauldron...
Hazel Gardiner, Project Conservator, Ur Project My work as Project Conservator for the Ur Digitisation Project continues the assessment, investigation and conservation of objects held by the British...
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Sharp of teeth: crocodiles in the ancient Sahara
Jorge de Torres, Project Cataloguer, African Rock Art Image Project, British Museum For many people crocodiles represent the ultimate predator, a merciless killer which hides in the water to prey on...
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The mystery of the Fetter Lane hoard
Amelia Dowler, Curator of Greek and Roman Provincial Coins, British Museum In 1908 workmen excavating foundations for a house in Fetter Lane (City of London) found 46 coins in a pot. The Rev’d FD...
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Spicy stories: the case of a clove boat model
Charlotte Dixon, Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD Student, British Museum and University of Southampton Model boat made from threaded cloves before conservation, AD 1700s–1900s, probably from...
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Exploring an Ice Age Island
Beccy Scott, Calleva Project Post Doctoral Researcher, British Museum As London swelters, I am spending the summer in the Ice Age: it is the final year of Ice Age Island, a three-year excavation...
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Instruments of community: lyres, harps and society in ancient north-east Africa
Jorge de Torres, Project Cataloguer, African Rock Art Image Project, British Museum Sudanese lyre. 19th century. H. 40.5 cm. British Museum Af1917,0411.1 Until 16 August, lovers of African music and...
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Magna Carta, Bloomsbury and the British Museum
Lloyd de Beer, Curator of Late Medieval Europe, British Museum Last month we celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. It is not often that people collectively stop to remember the creation...
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The Painted Horn: visiting a rock art site in Somalia
Jorge de Torres, Project Cataloguer, African Rock Art Image Project, British Museum Painted image of long-horned cow with human figure underneath, Laas Geel, Somalia. (Photograph © TARA/David Coulson –...
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A taste for honey: bees in African rock art
Helen Anderson, Project Cataloguer of African Rock Art Image Project, British Museum In Summer 2014 the green roof of the newly opened World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre (WCEC) at the British...
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Understanding art in religion
Robert Bracey, curator, British Museum The term ‘religion’ covers a diverse range of thoughts and beliefs. Some people understand their religion to prohibit all acts of violence, even to the smallest...
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How to collect a cave: digital photography and African rock art
Elizabeth Galvin, curator, British Museum I am currently looking at 25,000 objects from the Museum’s collection on my desk. These fantastic works detail an important part of human history in Africa...
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Conserving the pottery, terracotta and tablets from Ur
Duygu Camurcuoglu, conservator, Ur Project, British Museum My job is to assess the condition of the objects from Ur being studied as part of the Ur digitisation project, conserve them if necessary, and...
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Citizen archaeologists wanted to help rediscover the British Bronze Age
Jennifer Wexler, Bronze Age Index Manager, MicroPasts Project, Daniel Pett, ICT Advisor, Portable Antiquities Scheme, and Neil Wilkin, Curator of European Bronze Age collections, British Museum As any...
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Colourful glass adornments from Egypt: an 18th-dynasty enigma
Anna Hodgkinson, Research Fellow, British Museum The author inspecting the glass objects The Egyptian 18th Dynasty (around 1545-1290 BC) is renowned for the quality of glass production, particularly...
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Ur of the Chaldees: a virtual vision of Woolley’s excavations
Birger Helgestad, Project Curator, Ur Project, British Museum An almost 4,000-year-old fired clay relief depicting a nude hero. One of a pair of reliefs made from the same mould (British Museum...
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What lies beneath: new discoveries about the Jericho skull
Alexandra Fletcher, curator, British Museum It’s always a problem for museum curators to find ways of learning more about the objects in their care without damaging them. For human remains, it’s even...
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The earliest human footprints outside Africa
Nicholas Ashton, curator, British Museum Happisburgh has hit the news again. Last time the coverage even reached the People’s Daily in China, but I’ve yet to find out which parts of the globe the...
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Introducing the African rock art image project
Elizabeth Galvin, curator, British Museum This is the first of a series of posts that we – the Rock Art team – will be writing over the coming 4 years. Through generous support from the Arcadia Fund,...
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Reading an ancient Egyptian poem
Richard Parkinson, curator, British Museum Reading an ancient poem is often a difficult experience, and academic traditions do not always help. The Tale of The Eloquent Peasant, was written in Egypt...
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From Parthian chicken to flat breads: experimenting with a Roman oven
Sally Grainger, chef and author In previous posts I introduced the different types of ancient portable ovens which are generally called either clibanus or testum. The former term is the more...
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