The ancient artifact, discovered in the Middle East, was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 but remained ... The map ...

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...

The ancient Babylonian artifact, etched with cuneiform—a ... Discovered in what is now Iraq in 1882, the tablet is housed at the British Museum, where it has become one of its famous collections.

They appeared to him to have come from ancient Mesopotamia ... Temple wall, Girsu, Iraq(© Trustees of the British Museum) Soon after the artifacts arrived at the museum, Rey returned to London ...

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest ... The lyre, which is now on display at the British Museum in London, is a reconstruction that consists of wooden ...