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  2. British Museum - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, ... comprising 65,000 volumes, 19,000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawings. ...

  3. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    British Museum, (BM 92687) The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost ...

  4. Natural History Museum, London - Wikipedia

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    The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road.

  5. British Museum Reading Room - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum Reading Room is the subject of an eponymous poem, "The British Museum Reading Room", by Louis MacNeice. Much of the action of David Lodge's 1965 novel The British Museum Is Falling Down takes place in the old Reading Room. The 'Glass Ceiling' of Anabel Donald's 1994 novel is the ceiling of the Reading Room, where the ...

  6. Bloomsbury - Wikipedia

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    Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London, part of the London Borough of Camden in England. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest museum in the United Kingdom, and several educational ...

  7. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    Imago Mundi Babylonian map, the oldest known world map, 6th century BC Babylonia.Now in the British Museum.. A Babylonian world map, known as the Imago Mundi, is commonly dated to the 6th century BCE. [5]

  8. 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]

  9. Queen Elizabeth II Great Court - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 51°31′10″N 0°7′37″W. View of the Great Court from the second floor of the southern wing. The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, is the covered central quadrangle of the British Museum in London. It was redeveloped during the late 1990s to a design by Foster and Partners, from a ...

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