Sin of vanity, temptation by personal ornament. From a manuscript in the British Museum, Royal 19ci, Folio 204.

A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age.

A guide to antiquities of the Stone Age in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities.

The book of the dead : facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees.

King James I of England and VI of Scotland. Engraving by C.G., 161-.

King Charles I. Engraving by T. Woodman and H. Mutlow, ca. 1784, after A. van Dyck.

King Charles I. Engraving by B. Reading after E. Bower.

King Charles I. Engraving by H. Bourne after J.L. Williams after A. van Dyck.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

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Catalogue of romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum.

Fontes Harleiani : a study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / [Cyril Ernest Wright].

Catalogue of engraved British portraits : preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Freeman O'Donoghue.

'London - British Museum, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities'

Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

Would you like to buy a dinosaur?

Divining the world through an artist’s almanac

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Catalogue

Catalogue of romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum.

Fontes Harleiani : a study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / [Cyril Ernest Wright].

Catalogue of engraved British portraits : preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Freeman O'Donoghue.

'London - British Museum, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities'

Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.

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Stories

A symbol of a lost homeland

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

Would you like to buy a dinosaur?

Divining the world through an artist’s almanac

Images

Catalogue

Catalogue of romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum.

Fontes Harleiani : a study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / [Cyril Ernest Wright].

Catalogue of engraved British portraits : preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Freeman O'Donoghue.

'London - British Museum, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities'

Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.