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 ...

Items in the collection date from the third to 20th Century The British Museum is to be given Chinese ceramics worth £1bn in what is believed to be the highest-value gift received by a UK museum.

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 ...

A small number of Assyrians survived the Sayfo in Turkey. In the late 20th century this population suffered another exodus as ...