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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 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 national museums of the UK are funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) of the British government, and are all located in England. There are 14 national museums, all established by Acts of Parliament, as well as another eight which are sponsored by the DCMS.
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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. Sometimes, map collections are combined with graphic sheets, manuscripts and rare prints in a single department.
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 ...
There are 35 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories. [2] The UNESCO list contains one designated site in both England and Scotland (the Frontiers of the Roman Empire) plus eighteen exclusively in England, six in Scotland, four in Wales, two in Northern Ireland, and one in each of the overseas territories of Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Pitcairn ...