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Cleopatra's image on Egyptian coins is likely her most authentic portrait. Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked ...
Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...
Ever tossed aside loose change without thinking twice? One particular British coin may make you wish you hadn't, with the potential to fetch a hefty sum. Such a remarkable coin is none other than ...
A cultural powerhouse or a celebration of stolen artifacts from colonial times? The British Museum is a fascinating window into global culture—despite the problematic origins of many exhibits.
The coins were sent to the British Museum in London for identification, authentication and valuation, before being offered to Halesworth & District Museum for purchase. To see the Blythburgh ...
The British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figure report has revealed. The total places it third in our survey ...
The listing describes it as "a very rare British decimal coin featuring a design inspired by the beloved Beatrix Potter story". The story in question is The Tailor of Gloucester, one of the iconic ...
The most-visited attraction in the UK for the second year in a row was the British Museum, according to official figures. The famous London museum saw 6,479,952 visitors through its doors in 2024 ...
The Sir Percival David Foundation will permanently donate its £1 billion ($1.27 billion) Chinese ceramics collection to the British Museum, following regulatory approval to amend its governing ...
Only five complete such sets are known, one of which is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in the United Kingdom ... “When it came to cataloguing the British coins from the Traveller Collection I had ...
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with its quintessentially British, delightfully eccentric Victorian charm entirely intact. A gilded, sumptuous jewel box of a museum, always serene despite being just a stone’s throw from the chaos of ...