banknotes and small pieces of pottery to larger, more grandiose sculptures and jewellery, and that the way the British Museum acquired them varies too. Museum's biggest pieces are from elsewhere ...

a time when public interest in ancient cultures was high and museums were eager for pieces to display. A British Museum study in fact pinpointed the manufacture of most of the skulls to an area of ...

The British Museum houses an incredible collection of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, from the famed Rosetta Stone to an ...

Pottery vessel ... more familiar to museum visitors. This is a reminder that whatever the later history of conflict with the Persians, there was a strong eastern influence on ancient Greek pottery ...

The ancient silk industry itself is bound up ... But what caught my attention at the new Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum, were connections west, to the British Isles.