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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.
This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or ... (1920–2001) British; excavation methods ... British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–1945; ...
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.
The Ram in a Thicket (London) viewed from the front The Ram in a Thicket viewed from the side - University of Pennsylvania Version. When it was discovered, the 45.7 cm (18.0 in) figure had been crushed flat by the weight of the soil above it and its inner wooden core had decomposed.
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 ...
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]
Objects in the collection of the British Museum, London, England, sorted by department. See also Category:British Library collections, which were part of the British Museum before the establishment of the British Library in 1973.
Excavations at Sidon have been her main research focus throughout her career and she has published extensively on this subject. Doumet-Serhal was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 October 2009. [2] She was awarded an MBE in the 2010 New Year Honours list for services to archaeology. [3]