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The myth of the Trojan War
Introducing an epic tale The story of the ancient city of Troy, and of the great war that was fought over it, has been told for some 3,000 years. Spread by travelling storytellers, it was cast into...
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The marathon’s ancient origins
Although never part of the ancient Olympic Games, the marathon does have ancient Greek origins. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, when the Athenians learned that the Persians had landed at...
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The Sword of Tiberius
The so-called Sword of Tiberius is on display in Room 70, the Wolfson Gallery of the Roman Empire. It perfectly embodies Roman visual language and political propaganda, tied up with Rome’s foreign wars...
View ArticleThe British Museum Membercast: Friends, Romans, countrymen? – Part 2
The British Museum Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to ‘all studious and curious persons’. Comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence (The Z List Dead List) presents snippets from...
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The marathon’s ancient origins
Although never part of the ancient Olympic Games, the marathon does have ancient Greek origins. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, when the Athenians learned that the Persians had landed at...
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The Sword of Tiberius
The so-called Sword of Tiberius is on display in Room 70, the Wolfson Gallery of the Roman Empire. It perfectly embodies Roman visual language and political propaganda, tied up with Rome’s foreign wars...
View ArticleThe British Museum Membercast: Friends, Romans, countrymen? – Part 2
The British Museum Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to ‘all studious and curious persons’. Comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence (The Z List Dead List) presents snippets from...
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Magna Carta, Bloomsbury and the British Museum
Lloyd de Beer, Curator of Late Medieval Europe, British Museum Last month we celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. It is not often that people collectively stop to remember the creation...
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On wrestlers, rodents and rare discoveries
Celeste Farge, Exhibition Project Curator, British Museum Bronze statue of an apoxyomenos. Greek, about 300 BC. Ministry of Culture, Croatia.Image: Mali Losinj Tourist Board / photography by Mr Marko...
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Ancient beauty and modern lives
Richard B. Parkinson, Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford It’s hard to walk past so many beautiful naked bodies in a dark room without thinking a bit about sex and love; and in an exhibition...
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What lies beneath: drapery and the suggested form
As a new painting by Alison Watt goes on display at the British Museum, the acclaimed artist talks about the inspiration behind the painting… From the moment I first heard Ian Jenkins, curator of...
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Let’s talk about sex: men and women in Greek art
Dr Katherine Harloe, Associate Professor of Classics and Intellectual History, University of Reading Browsing the exhibition Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art on a rainy afternoon, an...
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The passion of Ajax
Ian Jenkins, Curator, ancient Greece, British Museum I am often asked what my favourite object is in the exhibition Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art. I answer this by marching my...
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Designing beauty
Caroline Ingham, Senior Designer: Exhibitions, British Museum Detail of a Bronze reconstruction of around 1920 by George Römer of the Doryphoros or ‘spear-bearer’ by Polykleitos, made around 440–430...
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The shock of the nude
Ian Jenkins, Exhibition Curator, British Museum I’m currently working on the Museum’s major exhibition Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art, which opens 26 March 2015. When you see the...
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Did women in Greece and Rome speak?
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics, Cambridge University Did women in Greece and Rome speak? Stupid question; of course they did. They must have chattered and joked together, laughed at the silliness...
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AD 79 in HD: broadcasting Pompeii Live
Tim Plyming, Head of Digital Media and Publishing, British Museum At time of writing we are under a week away from two live cinema events for the British Museum exhibition Life and death in Pompeii and...
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Herculaneum: the unknown city
Vanessa Baldwin, exhibition project curator, British Museum For many people visiting the exhibition, Life and Death Pompeii and Herculaneum, it may be the first time they have encountered the smaller...
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Telling the human story of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Vanessa Baldwin, exhibition project curator, British Museum Many of the objects on display in the exhibition Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, are not artefacts, they are people’s possessions....
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London, a world city in 20 objects: The Colossus of Dali
Thomas Kiely, British Museum Upper part of a colossal limestone statue of a bearded man This colossal limestone statue of a worshipper – identified by the elaborate wreath of leaves and berries around...
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