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Ein kurzer Rundgang durchDAS BRITISCHE MUSEUMJOHN JULIUS NORWICHWILLKOMMEN im Britischen Museum. Es ist, wie Sie sehen, ein máchtiger Bau, der vielleicht auf erstmalige Besucher etwas überwáltigend wirkt. Zwar láfit sich an den Ausmafien nichts ándern, aber wir können den Aufbau...

Hieroglyphs before deciphermentOn 24 August ad 394 on the island of Philae at the southern border of Egypt hieroglyphs were used apparently for the last time to inscribe the ancient Egyptian language. The final inscription on stone in demotic, the latest and most cursive of the three scripts...

t'i- - —In the beginning Sir Hans Sloane was a great collector. He filled his house with rare books and pictures, fossils and precious stones, stuffed animals, birds and butterflies, and ancient remains from all over the world. There had never been a collection quite like it, and visitors...

Introduction Most medieval artists and craftsmen remain anonymous, but the resulting obscurity has been particularly impenetrable as far as glass-painters are concerned. Very little has: been written on the lives and careers of those who were responsible for one of the most public of all...

1 M i í fi f/8 Is II 1 I 1 k i Sajíj 1 Turn sharp left immediately inside the Main Entrance, go through the Bookshop, then through the first opening on your right into what is known as the Assyrian Transept. Spare only a quick glancé at those two huge monsters on your left - for we shall be...