The Mexica Double-Headed Serpent in the British Museum
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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