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Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Is this a Viking Magic Wand?

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For decades the experts at the British Museum believed that this item, discovered at a woman's grave from Norway was just a hook used...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Medieval pendant found by boy, 4, on show at British Museum

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A 500-year-old gold reliquary, beautifully engraved with the names of the Magi and images of Christ and St Helena, which was found by a ...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Church to sell 15th century chalice to British Museum for £1.3 million

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A £1.3m sale of the Lacock Cup to the British Museum has been approved by a Consistory Court, with the judge appealing for battling villag...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

British Museum to host major exhibition on Ancient Rome in 2013

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The British Museum will be featuring the ancient Roman world in an exhibition during the spring and summer of 2013. Life and death in Pompei...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

The Walters Art Museum Removes Copyright Restrictions from more than 10,000 Images

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The Walters Art Museum announces the launch of its redesigned works of art website with the removal of copyright restrictions on more than 1...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Grisly Relics, Gorgeous Art

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The wonderfully ghoulish "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe" in the British Museum Round Reading...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Badge dug up in field is medieval treasure

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A scrap of twisted silver found a few weeks ago by a metal detector in Lancashire will take its place among masterpieces of medieval art at ...
Monday, June 20, 2011

British Museum to host “Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relic and Devotion in Medieval Europe”

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The British Museum’s major summer exhibition explores the spiritual and artistic significance of Christian relics and reliquaries in medieva...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Treasures of Heaven, Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, British Museum

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Around 828, some Venetian merchants were in Alexandria on a mission. They made their way into the Coptic cathedral where the body of St Mark...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

More archaeological finds being report in UK, British Museum reports

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Over 90 000 archaeological finds were reported to British authorities in 2010, the British Museum reports, which marks a significant increas...