British Museum, London Photos

The British Museum in London is the major repository of British & ancient world history, archeology & civilizations.

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British Museum - Building British Museum entrance courtyard on Great Russell Street. London, United Kingdom Pediment depicting Rise of Civilization over main entrance of British Museum. London, United Kingdom Glass atrium of Queen Elizabeth Great Court of British Museum over Reading Room & Stone Lion. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Asian Cradle of Civilization Goat in a Thicket statue from Sumerian city of Ur in Mesopotamia at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Facial detail of Assyrian human-headed winged lion guarding doorway of North-West Palace from Nimrud at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Persian empire silver wine pourer in form of winged griffin possibly from Altintepe near Erzincan, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Egyptian Art Painted limestone statue of Kaitep & his wife, Hetepheres prob. from Giza at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Reconstructed painting of Nebamun hunting birds with wife Hathepsut in marshes of Nile from his tomb, Thebes at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Painted lime plaster mask of man shaped over his skull from Hu at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Ancient Greek Art Head detail of Cycladic female figure marble figurine Spedos-type from Keros-Syros culture at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Greek terracotta red figure amphora with goddess Nike pouring libation for Trojan hero Lykaon attrib. to Lykaon painter made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Sheet gold pendant of Cretan nature god wearing Minoan kilt at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Athens Parthenon Carvings Gallery displaying Parthenon of Athens Classical Greek Frieze by Pheidias at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Reclining youth on east pediment of Athens Parthenon by Pheidias at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Horse's head from chariot of moon-goddess Selene on east pediment of Athens Parthenon by Pheidias at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Etruscan Objects Etruscan silver with electrum relief panel of horse-racing riders with fallen comrade underfoot perhaps from parade chariot or furniture from Castel San Mariano, Italy at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Etruscan painted terracotta antefix molded with head of man with beard 400-300 BCE) from Italy at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Etruscan carved terracotta cinerary urn with reclining man with libation cup on lid & battle panel on chest from Chiusi at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Celtic Art Celtic culture bronze convex circular disc of unknown function from Ireland at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Celtic Great Torc weighing over 1kg found buried at Snettisham, Norfolk now at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Celtic culture bronze inlaid with red glass strap union to join horse harness straps found Polden Hill in Somerset at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Romans in Britain Roman bronze head of Emperor Hadrian found in River Thames near London Bridge at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Roman era face-urn which contained cremated bones found Colchester, Essex at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Roman Bacchus floor mosaic detail found Thruxton, Hampshire at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Roman Buried Treasure Mildenhall Treasure Roman tableware silver Great Neptune Dish with relief musical & dancing figures 60.5cm diameter at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Roman silver platter with Bacchic scene part of Mildenhall Treasure at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Roman silver Corbridge lanx with shrine to Apollo scene found on bank of River Tyne near Hadrian's Wall in 1735 at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Roman Empire beyond Britain Collection of Roman oil lamps made in Italy & France at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Roman mosaic floor showing sea life used for food from Tuscany at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Roman sardonyx cameo busts perhaps of two imperial family members as Minerva & Juno at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Anglo Saxon Art Anglo-Saxon blown glass claw beaker from Ringlemere Farm in Kent, England at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Replica of Anglo-Saxon helmet starting with Sutton Hoo ship burial helmet using Scandinavian, Germanic & Roman motifs at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Anglo-Saxon type bronze square head or cruciform brooches from eastern England at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Byzantine & Medieval Christian Era Roman gold pendant with Constantine I ringed by six busts plus sheet metal medallion with emperor in a chariot at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Carolingian style engraved crystal with scenes of Susanna in Apocrypha in Medieval frame commissioned by Lothar King of Franks at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Satan drags souls to Hell in Last Judgment panels from England at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - English Ceramics Earthenware relief floor tile from St Albans Abbey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Earthenware tin-glazed wine flask with painted bust of King Charles II at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Joseph Priestly portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper by J. Flaxman at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - World Ceramics Porcelain demitasse & saucer by Peter Behrens & made by Gebrüder Bauscher of Germany at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Russian porcelain plate with Commissar of ChEKA design by A. Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya for SPF at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Chicago's Hotel Sherman china 'Well of the Sea' plate by William Craig McBirney & made by Shenango China of Syracuse, NY at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Glass Collection Enameled & gilded Islamic glass mosque lamp from Syria or Egypt at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Cut glass wine glass with portrait of Marshal Kutusov who led Russian army against Napoleon by Russian Imperial Glassworks of St Petersburg at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Stemmed glasses for State Dining Room of Federal Building at New York World's Fair by Walter Dorwin Teague & Edwin Fuerst & made by Libbey Glass Co of Toledo, Ohio at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Metalwork, Coins, Jewelry, Medals Gold Duke of Portland Font with symbols of Faith, Hope & Charity by Paul Storr of London at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Silver tea pot with drum-shaped body by Christopher Dresser made by Elkington & Co. of Birmingham at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Electrotype die for medal commemorating battle of Waterloo by Benedetto Pistrucci at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Clocks, Automatons Collection of tall clocks at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Table clock with alarm from Flanders at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Detail of firing cannons on clockwork automaton of medieval galleon by Hans Schlottheim of Augsburg, Germany at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
British Museum - Other early Antiquities Neolithic breccia figurine found at Gortyn at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Late Bronze Age bronze shield found at Dyfed, Wales at British Museum. London, United Kingdom Pictish carving of bull from Grampian, Scotland at British Museum. London, United Kingdom
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