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The Department of Asia in the British Museum holds one of the largest collections of historical objects from Asia. These collections comprise over 75,000 objects covering the material culture of the Asian continent (including East Asia, South and Central Asia, and Southeast Asia), and dating from the Neolithic age up to the present day.
Garnier, F. A., Turquie, Syrie, Liban, Caucase. 1862., from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. A map collection or map library is a storage facility for maps, usually in a library, archive, or museum, or at a map publisher or public-benefit corporation, and the maps and other cartographic items stored within that facility.
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
It was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 (BM 92687); [4] the text was first translated in 1889. [5] The tablet is usually thought to have originated in Borsippa. [6] In 1995, a new section of the tablet was discovered, at the point of the upper-most triangle. [7] The map is used as the logo of the academic journal Imago Mundi. [8]
The map is very large – the full frame measures 2.4 by 2.4 metres (8 by 8 ft). This makes Fra Mauro's mappa mundi the world's largest extant map from early modern Europe. The map is drawn on high-quality vellum and is set in a gilded wooden frame. The large drawings are highly detailed and use a range of expensive colors; blue, red, turquoise ...
The Museum of Mankind in 1987. From 1970 to 2004 the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum was housed at 6 Burlington Gardens, displaying collections from the Americas, Africa, the Pacific and Australia, as well as tribal Asia and Europe. This was due to lack of space in the museum's main building in Bloomsbury. Between 1970 and 1997 ...
Romano-British objects in the British Museum (22 P) Pages in category "Prehistory and Europe objects in the British Museum" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
English: Map of the World from Sippar (Tell Abu Habba), Mesopotamia, Iraq, 6th century BCE. On display at the British Museum in London. On display at the British Museum in London. Date