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 ...

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 ...