The British Museum's collection has grown since 1753 and the acquisition of the founding collection of Sir Hans Sloane. Objects have been acquired in a variety of ways. Some objects are subject to ...
From an African king to a Chinese princess, meet the fascinating figures whose stories are forever entwined with the Silk Roads. For millennia, people travelling the Silk Roads carried objects, ideas ...
Curator's comments A record card accompanying this material says that it was probably excavated by one of the Turner Bequest expeditions to Cyprus between 1893 and 1896. The diagnostic Iron Age ...
The British Museum's collection has grown in many ways over the past three centuries, starting with the 1753 Act of Parliament which purchased for the public Sir Hans Sloane's collection of over ...