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A new title in the British Museum¿s Object in Focus series, concentrating on a fascinating mammoth ivory model depicting a Siberian summer festival.

Showcases the British Museum¿s extraordinary collection of contemporary works on paper by artists of the Middle East and North Africa.

Discovered in Suffolk in 1942, the Mildenhall Treasure is one of the most important collections of Late Roman silver tableware from the Roman Empire.

Presents a fresh view of the early modern world through the eyes of Shakespeare, his players and audiences. This book illustrates the Catholic counterculture that is revealed through the failed Gunpowder Plot, which was later to prove the inspiration for "Macbeth".

From the domestication of the Arabian horse circa 3500BC onwards, this book explores how entire people and cultures have been characterized by the horse and its central role in society, in peace and war, in mythology and literature.

From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early Germanic languages including English, Dutch, German and the Scandinavian languages and reveal a wealth of information about our early civilisations. Runes employ many techniques from informal scratchings to sophisticated inlaid designs on weapons, or the exquisite relief carvings of the Franks Casket. The task of reading and understanding them involves a good deal of detective-work, calling on expertise from a number of academic disciplines: archaeology, art history, linguistics, and even forensic science. This book tells the story of runes from their mysterious origins, their development as a script, to their use and meaning in the modern world. Illustrated with a range of beautiful objects from jewellery to tools and weapons, Runes will reveal memorials for the dead, business messages, charms and curses, insults and prayers, giving us a glimpse into the languages and cultures of Europeans over a thousand years ago.

John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the British Museum; engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590 to illustrate Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia , they informed and ...

Twelve papers by leading international scholars on the theme of the cultural, regional and personal identity of the Etruscans.

The British Museum's collection of Japanese coins is one of the best outside Japan. Many of the coins were originally in the collection of Japan's renowned numismatist and collector, Kutsuki Masatsuna (1750-1802), and were acquired by the British Museum in the 1880s.

A catalogue of the unique collection of modern and contemporary prints and drawings of film critic and author Alexander Walker (1930¿2003).

The book discusses and catalogues Charles Masson's 1833-8 collections from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar now in the British Museum, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in Masson's archival manuscripts and in H.H. Wilson, but no longer in the collection.

This volume comprises the detailed publication of the Viking camp discovered at a location known as 'A Riverine Site Near York', along with the first detailed comparison of this and other key sites as a group and of their wider significance. It is a milestone publication for the understanding of precious metal economies in the Viking Age.

Sicily is at the heart of the Mediterranean and from ancient times to the present day it has been a hub of migration and settlement. This volume considers the history and material culture of the different peoples occupying Sicily at key points in the island's history, providing an overview of its unique identity and significance in a wider context.

From AD 500-1000, the Indian Ocean emerged as a global commercial centre, and by around 750-800 a sophisticated trade network had been established. However, the Indian Ocean's commercial system has been understudied. This book documents the unique significance of ceramic finds as an indicator of long-term changes in the scale of maritime exchange

For 7,000 years seals have functioned as signs of authority. This publication deals specifically with aspects of status in the history of seals, exploring this theme across a diverse range of cultural contexts-from the 9th century up to the Early Modern period, and, across the world, looking at Byzantine, European, Islamic and Chinese examples.

This fascinating new publication considers how the discovery of Etruscan artefacts has inspired artists, architects, nobility, scholars and travellers to Italy.

The coinage of the Kushan kings (1st to 4th centuries) and of their immediate successors the Sasanian Kushanshahs (3rd 4th centuries) and the Kidarite Hun Kushanshahs (4th 5th centuries) are a key component of our understanding of the history of ancient Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan during the early centuries AD.

Establishing the collection of Islamic artefacts at the British Museum is explored as a rewarding and challenging process in this enlightening look at the journey towards setting up a new museum.

This volume presents the rich array of structural and artefactual evidence spanning a few thousand years of prehistory at the site of Ringlemere, Kent. Evaluation of form and associated material culture steers interpretation away from the purely domestic and contributes to the ongoing debate about the place of ceremony in third millennium Britain.

Offers new perspectives on Buddhist relics and reliquaries, including a discussion of what constitutes a relic, as well as an analysis of the terminology related to relic worship. Other chapters focus on the placement and treatment of relics in situ as well as the spread of Buddhism to Burma and the vibrant relic culture that has been found there.

Millions of Chairman Mao badges were produced during China's Cultural Revolution, and were worn by almost all Chinese people, from Premier Zhou Enlai down to the smallest child.

The ancient Cypriot collections of the British Museum have inspired the essays in this volume in honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown, who for many years was their curator.

The Hoxne treasure, a spectacular collection of gold and silver coins, gold jewellery and silver artefacts, was buried early in the 5th century AD, and was rediscovered in November 1992.

Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much jewellery as women. Bejewelled offers an in-depth discussion of the contexts in which jewellery was circulated from a male perspective, considering the jewels as valid items of material culture.

Walter Edward Guinness (1880-1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer.

This volume presents the results of the studies undertaken by Pre-Construct Archaeology during redevelopment of the British Museum, and in so doing details the evolution of this area of London from the Roman period into modern times.

Stamp seals were used in a similar way to modern signet rings: a negative object used to impress a design into another material, often clay.

This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference 'Ming: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450' that accompanied the British Museum's major exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China (September 2014-January 2015).

Presents for the first time the results of the excavation and scientific analysis between 2005 and 2013 of seventeen Iron Age cauldrons discovered in a large pit on farmland in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and consequently acquired by the British Museum.

A landmark publication¿beautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museum¿s renowned collection¿which traces the history of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography.