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Most of the antiquities Salt collected were purchased by the British Museum and the Musée du Louvre. By 1866 the collection consisted of some 10,000 objects. Antiquities from excavations started to come to the museum in the latter part of the 19th century as a result of the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund under the efforts of E.A. Wallis Budge.
The British Museum asked Dr Peter Guest of Vianova Archaeology [2] to renew excavations in Hinton St Mary in 2021 [9] and 2022 [10] Dr Guest involved local people extensively in the excavations, and wrote in village magazine The Mosaic that the excavations were "a resounding success." Dr Guest also commented that "we are now thinking about ...
The British Museum conducted its own excavations in Egypt where it received divisions of finds, including Asyut (1907), Mostagedda and Matmar (1920s), Ashmunein (1980s) and sites in Sudan such as Soba, Kawa and the Northern Dongola Reach (1990s). The size of the Egyptian collections now stand at over 110,000 objects. [73]
Plate from By Nile and Tigris [5] vol.2, 1920 (facing p.360) showing how the body (EA 32751) was displayed in the British Museum at that time. The mummies were acquired by the British Museum in 1900. [17] One male adult body, museum number EA 32751 (nicknamed "Ginger"), went on display in 1901 and was the earliest mummified body seen by the public.
The Lachish reliefs are a set of Assyrian palace reliefs narrating the story of the Assyrian victory over the kingdom of Judah during the siege of Lachish in 701 BCE. Carved between 700 and 681 BCE, as a decoration of the South-West Palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh (in modern Iraq), the relief is today in the British Museum in London, [3] and was included as item 21 in the BBC Radio 4 series A ...
During an excavation of the Northwest Palace in 1988, the Queen's Tombs were discovered under the Southern, domestic wing. [3] All four tombs discovered within the palace were built during the ninth and eighth centuries and were primarily constructed of the mudbrick, baked brick, and limestone [ 3 ] ––materials commonly used in Mesopotamian ...
The Anglo-Saxon period is broadly defined as the period of time from roughly 410 AD to 1066 AD. The first modern, systemic excavations of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries and settlements began in the 1920s. Since then, archaeological surveys of cemeteries and settlements have uncovered more information about the society and culture of Anglo-Saxon England ...
Covering an area of 18 hectares (44 acres), at the time it was the largest archaeological excavation in Europe, [2] and is the largest excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles. [3] Excavation continued year-round to stay ahead of gravel extraction that was rapidly destroying the site, accumulating an "astonishing" volume of material. [4]