Bøker utgitt av British Museum Press

An eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury - together with its positive and negative connotations - in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600 and 200 BCE.

This volume presents a new translation and analysis of the Hay manuscripts: an assemblage of seven leather sheets bearing Coptic 'magical' texts produced in the 8th/9th century AD. They contain a handbook, known as the 'Hay cookbook', and other formularies for protection, healing and cursing, some with an especially aggressive sexual character.

The ancient Greeks perceived the human body as an object of sensory delight and its depiction as the expression of an intelligent mind. This photographic book explores ancient Greek sculptures of the body from the various angles.

This book presents images and discussion of 20 English coin hoards, ranging in date from the 730s to the 1090s.

An exciting, wide-ranging exploration of the power and diversity of female figures of worship in world cultures and belief systems, from the ancient world to today.

Using extraordinary Indigenous Australian art and artifacts preserved in museums across Great Britain and Ireland, the authors present a global history that entwines ancestral pasts with epochs of empire and colony leading to the contemporary moment.

Landmark publication of a major new discovery of over 100 drawings by foremost Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Acquired by the British Museum in 2020, these previously unpublished drawings had been forgotten for over 70 years.

Brand new research on the place where Buddha attained enlightenment: the temple site of Bodhgaya in eastern India.

Examines how European and Asian ceramics in the domestic sphere challenged convention and tackled socio-political issues.

This is a perfect companion for visitors who want to savour the highlights of the collection.

A charming and original illustrated story for children, following the adventures of the world's most famous chessmen r ead by David Attenborough

This is the companion volume to one devoted to recent research on Byzantine jewellery published in 2010 and forms part of a series organised under the auspices of the British Museum Byzantine Seminar Series. The conference brought together leading scholars from Europe, the USA and the Middle East to discuss Late Antique gems and cameos.

An innovative approach to the study of an under-appreciated topic of the place of art in ancient religion and will be essential reading for researchers and students of the material and religious cultures of late antiquity across Eurasia.

First complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, Norfolk. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Iron Age culture

The latest volume of this highly regarded series presents for the first time an authoritative and systematic account of the coins minted in the Roman provinces during the period from the accession of Nerva in AD 96 to the death of Hadrian in AD 138 and includes the three reigns of Nerva (AD 96-98), Trajan (AD 98-117) and Hadrian (AD 117-38).

This, the fourth in the British Museum's series of terracottas catalogues, features terracottas found in Egypt and dating from the victory of Alexander in 332 BC and the succeeding Ptolemaic and Roman periods until the Arab conquest in AD 641.

A new title in the British Museum¿s Object in Focus series, concentrating on a fascinating mammoth ivory model depicting a Siberian summer festival.

Discovered in Suffolk in 1942, the Mildenhall Treasure is one of the most important collections of Late Roman silver tableware from the Roman Empire.

Presents a fresh view of the early modern world through the eyes of Shakespeare, his players and audiences. This book illustrates the Catholic counterculture that is revealed through the failed Gunpowder Plot, which was later to prove the inspiration for "Macbeth".

From the domestication of the Arabian horse circa 3500BC onwards, this book explores how entire people and cultures have been characterized by the horse and its central role in society, in peace and war, in mythology and literature.

From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early Germanic languages including English, Dutch, German and the Scandinavian languages and reveal a wealth of information about our early civilisations. Runes employ many techniques from informal scratchings to sophisticated inlaid designs on weapons, or the exquisite relief carvings of the Franks Casket. The task of reading and understanding them involves a good deal of detective-work, calling on expertise from a number of academic disciplines: archaeology, art history, linguistics, and even forensic science. This book tells the story of runes from their mysterious origins, their development as a script, to their use and meaning in the modern world. Illustrated with a range of beautiful objects from jewellery to tools and weapons, Runes will reveal memorials for the dead, business messages, charms and curses, insults and prayers, giving us a glimpse into the languages and cultures of Europeans over a thousand years ago.

John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the British Museum; engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590 to illustrate Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia , they informed and ...

Twelve papers by leading international scholars on the theme of the cultural, regional and personal identity of the Etruscans.

The British Museum's collection of Japanese coins is one of the best outside Japan. Many of the coins were originally in the collection of Japan's renowned numismatist and collector, Kutsuki Masatsuna (1750-1802), and were acquired by the British Museum in the 1880s.

A catalogue of the unique collection of modern and contemporary prints and drawings of film critic and author Alexander Walker (1930¿2003).