The British Museum

Biographic Data

ID9284552
NAMEThe British Museum
GIVEN NAMESThe British
FAMILY NAMEMuseum
SIGNATUREMUSEUM T B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Burma to Myanmar

    Open AccessThe British Museum, Alexandra GreenARTICLEJournal of the Siam Society2024

    Exhibition Review

  • Of boxes in the Bronze Age

    Open AccessJohn Simpson, The British MuseumARTICLEArchaeological News2021

    This paper briefly reviews some of the excavated evidence for decorated boxes found at sites from Mesopotamia to Central Asia in the late 3rd millennium BC, and concludes that one published from an Akkadian grave at Nippur is a Harappan import. Similar types of box found at Gonur depe were used to contain mirrors, and this also provides a new explanation for the Nippur box. Remains of other types of decorated box are also known from elite graves …

  • Archaeology and politics in the age of dams

    Open AccessJohn Simpson, The British MuseumARTICLEArchaeological News2020

    В очередном выпуске «Археологических вестей» ИИМК РАН публикуются избранные материалы, представленные участниками конференции «Древние культуры Центральной Азии и Санкт-Петербург -2», прошедшей в г.Санкт-Петербурге в декабре 2018 г.Конференция была приурочена к 90-летию со дня рождения А. Д. Грача -выдающегося отечественного археолога, крупного исследователя древностей Центральной Азии и основателя двух направлений в рамках ленинградской археолог…

  • Characterising the Welsh Roundhouse

    Open AccessThe British Museum, Eleanor Ghey et al.ARTICLEInternet Archaeology2007Cited by: 1

    The article stems from a one-year project funded by the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies to collect and analyse all the evidence for excavated prehistoric and early historic roundhouses in Wales. The resulting dataset will serve as a resource for researchers and, through the analysis provided in this article, provide an important counterpoint to similar studies from elsewhere in Britain. The methodology of the project is presented, and…

  • Dea Computrix - another deity for the Roman Pantheon? Journeys in the Roman Empire CD-Rom

    Open AccessT Sam N Moorhead, The British MuseumARTICLEInternet Archaeology2002

    This article outlines a personal view on the content and production of a CD-Rom on the Roman world produced by The British Museum, Channel 4, Verulamium Museum and Braunarts: Journeys in the Roman Empire. I discuss some of the benefits of and problems with multimedia production and outline feedback from various evaluation projects of the CD-Rom. I also briefly discuss the future of CD-Roms in the face of a rapidly expanding internet with referenc…

  • Catering for Pilgrims

    Open AccessLouise Joyner, The British Museum et al.ARTICLEInternet Archaeology2000Cited by: 1References: 1

    Petrography has been used to elucidate patterns of production and consumption of kitchenware at a typical Early Christian desert monastery on the Pilgrim route. While some vessels may have been produced locally, there is evidence for long distance trade of other vessels