BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS

Since its discovery in the late 19th century, Naukratis has been recognised as one of the most important sites of the Archaic Mediterranean, situated at the crossroads between Greece and ...

The sarcophagus containing the remains of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa was found at Poggio Cantarello near Chiusi in 1886 and is now housed in the British Museum. The sarcophagus shows a ...

From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of ...

The British Museum has the largest, finest and most famous collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. This is the first guide to the highlights ...

Pacific Encounters brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects gathered during the early period of contact with European voyagers, missionaries and settlers. The book presents over 270 ...

The current conception of the absolute chronology of the Italian Copper Age to the end of the Early Iron Age is set out in this new title from the British ...

The first full publication of the monumental granite naos of King Nekhthorheb (360-343 BC), originally 3.5m tall. The naos is an important source for late religious iconography and relief carving, ...

This occasional paper publishes a group of papyri that supplement those included in J.J. Janssens comprehensive Late Ramesside Letters and Communications (Hieratic papyri in the British Museum VI, 1991). The ...

This comprehensive and fully illustrated survey tells the story of the development of ceramics in China from the Neolithic period to the present day. Explaining and assessing the major roles ...

The Eighteen Feasts of the Mexica Year takes as its first authority the corpus of texts written by the Mexica (or Aztecs) themselves, in the script which in their language ...

Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also the owner of one of the largest private ...

This exhibition culls nearly 100 highlights representing four centuries of French master drawings from the renowned holdings of The British Museum. From the refined production of 16th-century court society to ...

This stunning book highlights outstanding examples of design and craft in paintings and manuscripts, calligraphy, metalwork, ceramics, glass, wood and ivory. It offers an exceptional view of an imposing collection ...

The exhibition consists of around 90 drawings by Michelangelo selected from the unrivalled collections of the British Museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. Autograph letters, ...

A beautiful and unique exhbition catalogue tracing the rise and fall of one of the ancient world's largest and richest empires. With a heightened interest in the Middle East today, ...

Sutton Hoo is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. In 1939 it was the scene of the discovery of a fabulous treasure buried in a ship ...

This book focuses on the money of Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800, a period of over 900 years, across a vast geographical area with a very diverse population ...

In no other culture has the sword been developed to such a level of technological excellence and attained such a position of spiritual importance as in Japan. As a cutting ...

This definitive edition of an important Book of the Dead is the first modern publication of a unique papyrus in its original form. It includes a detailed examination of the ...

Discovered in 1992, the Hoxne Treasure is perhaps the richest cache of gold and silver coins, jewellery and tableware from the entire Roman world. The core of this volume is ...