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  2. British Museum - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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    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. [3]

  4. Mucking (archaeological site) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Hinton St Mary Mosaic - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Great Wilbraham (causewayed enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    Clarke's proposal to the British Museum after the first year's excavation had mentioned finding a wolf bone, [29] but in the reanalysis the only canid mentioned was a dog. [57] A dog was apparently present at the enclosure during the Neolithic occupation, as one of the cattle bones showed clear signs of gnawing. [57]

  7. Xanthos - Wikipedia

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    The Harpy Tomb sculptures in the British Museum. Excavations at Xanthos have shown that wooden structures were destroyed in c. 470 BC, probably by the Athenian Kimon. Xanthos was later rebuilt in stone. [17] The Nereid Monument, the Tomb of Payava, and the original sculptures of the Harpy Tomb are exhibited in the British Museum.

  8. Gertrude Caton Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Many of these finds are now in the British Museum's permanent collection, [12] with smaller collections in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. [4] While working in the Badari region 1923–24, she explored prehistoric settlement remains at Hemamieh. Caton Thompson's work at the site was distinguished by its ...

  9. Basil Brown - Wikipedia

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    Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English archaeologist and astronomer.Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time".