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The Mexica Double-Headed Serpent in the British Museum

27/08/2025 donbrown 0

In 1521, less than 30 years after Columbus first landed in the Americas a Spanish force of invaders/adventurers/colonists had sacked the Mexica (Aztec) capital of […]

inside the old reading room of the british library

The Old British Library Reading Room in the British Museum

23/01/2025 donbrown 0

Ever since the British Library decamped to its new home at St Pancras in 1997 and the subsequent creation of the Great Court, the British […]

The Nereid Monument in the British Museum

22/01/2024 donbrown 0

On one’s way to the Parthenon Gallery one walks through Room 17 of the British Museum and there, on the right, is what appears to […]

All Hail the Sacred Dung Beetle!

12/11/2023 donbrown 0

When Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, sold his collection of antiquities to the British Museum in 1816, the museum acquired not only his once […]

star carr red dear headdress in the british museum

Contemplating the Infinite in the British Museum

09/11/2023 donbrown 0

In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, the Total Perspective Vortex gives “one momentary glimpse of the size of the entire infinity of creation […]

The Sutton Hoo treasure

01/02/2022 donbrown 0

In 1938 a Suffolk woman called Edith Pretty asked a local archaeologist Basil Brown (no relation unfortunately) to excavate a series of mounds that were […]

The Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum

15/11/2021 donbrown 0

A bit more medieval from the British Museum (read all about a 700 year old citole here), but this time we’re not in my favourite […]

The 4500 year old Standard of Ur

18/08/2021 donbrown 0

Back in the British Museum for the first time since lockdown and prepping for a real life tour with a real life guest. The Standard […]

Video: Favourite Museums and Galleries

09/08/2021 donbrown 0

Another free talk from me and my four friends at UKToursOnline. Here we look forward to the reopening of the UK’s galleries and museums by […]

Lindow Man – the body in the bog

25/04/2020 donbrown 0

In the British Museum is a remarkable Iron Age corpse, a wonderfully preserved ‘bog body’ from the 1st century CE discovered in a place called […]

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The Mexica Double-Headed Serpent in the British Museum

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The Old British Library Reading Room in the British Museum

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The Nereid Monument in the British Museum

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All Hail the Sacred Dung Beetle!

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The Sutton Hoo treasure

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The 4500 year old Standard of Ur

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Lindow Man – the body in the bog

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