Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...
While other UK institutions continue to struggle, the British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, The Art Newspaper ...
The pieces were deliberately buried, probably in the first century of the Roman conquest of southern ... and reported to the British Museum. It has been valued at £254,000, which will be shared ...
London Museum has received £20m and more than 14,000 Roman artefacts from a US charitable organisation. The gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies is the largest private donation and largest archive ...
Hannah Appleyard, Wakefield Council's cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport, said the moulds would add to the wealth of Roman history on show at Castleford Museum. "This latest find paints ...
British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala ... Later, the Venetian admiral Francesco Morosini tried to remove sculptures in order to take them back to Venice. The pulley he was using ...
This tablet also has a local importance because it was found by excavation in the centre of the city, in the annexe to the Roman fort of Luguvalium (modern Carlisle), very close to the museum that ...
In Silk Roads, the British Museum ... are now rethinking global art history — and their own collections — for the 21st century. Each is unprecedented for its museum in using several core ...