Have you ever wished that you could read the beautiful hieroglyphic script of ancient Egypt for y...
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A concise introductory guide to ancient Egypt. Each double page focuses on a particular period in...
This volume presents for the first time an authoritative and systematic account of the coins mint...
This book presents images and discussion of 20 English coin hoards, ranging in date from the 730s...
In 1994, the remains of a 17th-century shipwreck were discovered by divers off Salcombe Bay. The ...
The British Museum holds one of the most extensive collections of Late Antique silver plate in th...
The word 'samurai' stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of ...
A dazzling celebration of the artistry of Hawaiian makers, this book tells a compelling story of ...
A new title in the British Museum's Object in Focus series that unpacks the history of a fascinat...
A comprehensive examination of drawings from the Low Countries (present-day Luxembourg, Belgium a...
Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the worl...