British Museum

**British Museum** nyɛla sokam zaa taarihi duu din jɛndi ninsalinima taarihi, nucheeni baŋsim n-ti pahi kaya ni taada ka nyɛ din be Bloomsbury yaɣili zaŋ n-ti London. Di nyɛla di ni tooi deegi tumanima kamani miliyɔŋ dibaa anii, di ni nyɛ bari dunia zaa. Di nyɛla din mali taarihi zaŋ jɛndi ninsalinima kaya ni taada tum biɛhigu piligu zaŋ hali na ni zuŋɔ. Bɛ daa miɛ li la yuuni 1753, the British Museum ŋɔ n daa nyɛ tuuli sokam dunia zaa national museum. Yuuni 2023, salo ban kalinli yiɣisi  5,820,860 nyɛla ban daa chaŋ museum ŋɔ ni, ka di kalinli ŋɔ nyɛla din gari yuun shɛŋa din gari maa kalinli kamani kɔbigi puuni vaabu 42%. Laɣingu shɛli nyɛla ban yɛlli ni di ni gaŋdu United Kingdom.

Di piligu, museum ŋɔ nyɛla din daa na mali Anglo-Irish physician mini tabibi baŋda Sir Hans Sloanelahabaya.  Di nyɛla bɛ ni daa yoogi shɛli n-ti lahabali kam deebu yuuni 1759,  Montagu House. Museum ŋɔ nyɛla din daa yɛligi pam yuun kɔbishii ni pihinu din daa doli na maa.

Yuuni 1973,  British Library Act 1972 nyɛla bɛ ni daa waligi shɛli ka che British Museum amaa ka leei na kuli mali British Library din be lala karimbu shee ŋɔ hali ni yuuni 1997. Kamani UK national museums zaa, di ni bi deeri kpɛbu na liɣiri zaŋ n-ti "loan exhibitions".

## Taarihi

### Sir Hans Sloane
[thumb|[Hans Sloane|Sir Hans Sloane]]
Di mini di malila kaya ni taɣada maa zaa yoli, British Museum daa nyɛla di kpa ka di nyɛla binshɛɣu kam ni tooi be din ni "universal museum". Di kpami doli Anglo-Irish physician mini naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) suhuyurilim, London dɔɣitɛ mini tabiibi-baŋda ŋun yina Ulster. O ni daa be o nyɛvuli ni, ni o ni daa bo Jamaica pakoli naai, Sloane daa laɣim "collection of curiosities" pam, ka daa bi yu ni o zali shɛli maa ti lahi kani o kalinsi nyaaŋa.
[right|thumb|[Montagu House, Bloomsbury|Montagu House, ]]
left|thumb|Entrance ticket to the British Museum, London 3 March 1790
[right|thumb|Left to Right: [Montagu House, Bloomsbury|Montagu House, Townley Gallery and Sir Robert Smirke's west wing under construction, July 1828]]
[thumb|The [Mausoleum at Halicarnassus|Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Room, 1920s]]
[thumb|Opening of The North Wing, [Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII's Galleries, 1914]]
[thumb|Sir [Leonard Woolley holding an excavated plaster cast of the Sumerian Queen's Lyre, 1922.]]
[thumb|The re-opened [Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen|Duveen Gallery, 1980]]
[thumb|The [Queen Elizabeth II Great Court|Great Court was developed in 2001 and surrounds the original Reading Room.]]
[thumb|Room 61 – The famous false fresco 'Pond in a Garden' from the [Tomb of Nebamun, ]]
[thumb|Room 4 – The [Rosetta Stone, key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, 196 BC]]

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**Roman saha (30 BC – 641 AD)**

"Schist" zuɣu din nyɛ bi'polli dini, Alexandria ( 30 BC nyaaŋa)

* "Meriotic Hamadab Stela" din yina Kingdom of Kush din kpa m-miri Meroë din be Sudan, 24 BC
* Soter mini Cleopatra kum adaka yɔrigu din yina Qurna, Thebes ( 2nd century AD piligu)
* Hawara ma anfooni(100–200 AD)
* Fayum mummy portraits din gari kalinli pihita ka yina Hawara ni Fayum yaɣ'shɛŋa (40–250 AD)
* Bronzefurila mini patera din yina X-group gbala ni, Qasr Ibrim (1st–6th centuries AD)
* "Coptic wall" peentibu zaŋti martyrdom din nyɛ saints, Wadi Sarga dini (6th century AD)

## Departments
### Department of Egypt and Sudan

British Museum nyɛ din mali taarihi binyɛra pam dunia zaa ka lahi mali Egyptian antiquities pam (kamani kalinli din gari 100,000 ) Egyptian Museum din be Cairo. Di nyɛla din lahi mali kaya ni taada binyɛra zaŋ n-ti Nile Valley ( Nubia), bin din gbaai  Predynastic Neolithic saha (), Coptic (Christian) saha (12th century AD) zaŋ hali na ni zuŋɔ, di yuma nyɛla din gari 11,000.
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File:Bm-ginger.jpg|Room 64 – Egyptian grave containing a Gebelein predynastic mummy, late predynastic, 3400 BC
File:London - British Museum - 2273.jpg|Room 4 – Three black granite statues of the pharaoh Senusret III, 
File:ThreeStatuesOfGoddessSakhmet-ProfileView-BritishMuseum-August19-08.jpg|Room 4 – Three black granite statues of the goddess Sakhmet, 
File:British Museum Egypt 086.JPG|Room 4 – Colossal statue of Amenhotep III, 
File:Colossal quartzite head of Amenhotep III, British Museum EA7.jpg|Great Court – Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III, 
File:Egyptian Couple BM (1).JPG|Room 4 - Limestone statue of a husband and wife, 1300–1250 BC
File:P1050700 (5022075232).jpg|Room 63 - Gilded outer coffins from the tomb of Henutmehyt, Thebes, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, 1250 BC
File:Book of the Dead of Hunefer sheet 5.jpg|Book of the Dead of Hunefer, sheet 5, 19th Dynasty, 1250 BC
File:British Museum Egypt 101.jpg|Room 4 – Ancient Egyptian bronze statue of a cat from the Late Period, –332 BC
File:British Museum Egypt 107.jpg|Room 4 – Green siltstone head of a Pharaoh, 26th–30th Dynasty, 600–340 BC
File:The black siltstone obelisk of Pharaoh Nectanebo II, c.350 BCE. From Cairo, Egypt. British Museum.jpg|Great Court – Black siltstone obelisk of King Nectanebo II of Egypt, Thirtieth dynasty, 
File:Fayum-66.jpg|Room 62 – Detail from the mummy case of Artemidorus the Younger, a Greek who had settled in Thebes, Egypt, during Roman times, 100–200 AD



File:Aegina treasure 01.jpg|Room 12 – A gold earring from the Aegina Treasure, Greece, 1700–1500 BC
File:BM; RM18 - GR, The Parthenon Galleries 1 Temple of Athena Parthenos (447-438 B.C) + North Slip Room, -Full Elevation & Viewing North-.JPG|Room 18 – Parthenon statuary from the east pediment and Metopes from the south wall, Athens, Greece, 447–438 BC
File:BM, GNR; The Acropolis & The late 5th C BC ~ Erechtheum Caryatid + Ionic Column (Room 19).jpg|Room 19 – Caryatid and Ionian column from the Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens, Greece, 420–415 BC
File:Tomb of Payava 2.jpg|Room 20 – Tomb of Payava, Lycia, Turkey, 360 BC
File:Fragmentary horse from the colossal four-horses chariot group which topped the podium of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, British Museum (8245662728).jpg|Room 21 – Fragmentary horse from the colossal chariot group which topped the podium of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Turkey, 
File:Gold wreath BM 1908.4-14.1.jpg|Room 22 - Gold oak wreath with a bee and two cicadas, western Turkey, 
File:Column drum Ephesus.JPG|Room 22 – Column from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Turkey, early 4th century BC
File:Asklepios Melos BM Sc550.jpg|Room 22 - Colossal head of Asclepius wearing a metal crown (now lost), from a cult statue on Melos, Greece, 325–300 BC
File:Head and left hand from a bronze cult statue of Anahita, a local goddess shown here in the guide of Aphrodite, 200-100 BC, British Museum (8167358544).jpg|Room 22 –  Bronze head and hand of an ancient Hellenistic statue discovered in Satala, Turkey, 200–100 BC
File:SFEC BritMus Roman 011.JPG|Room 1 - Farnese Hermes in the Enlightenment Gallery, Italy, 1st century AD
File:GladiatorHelmetBM.jpg|Room 69 - Roman gladiator helmet from Pompeii, Italy, 1st century AD
File:Lely Venus BM 1963.jpg|Room 23 - The famous version of the 'Crouching Venus', Roman, 
File:Spinario-British Museum.jpg|Room 22 – Roman marble copy of the famous 'Spinario (Boy with Thorn)', Italy, 
File:Apollo Kitharoidos BM 1380.jpg|Room 22 – Apollo of Cyrene (holding a lyre), Libya, 


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File:Raminathicket2.jpg|Room 56 – The 'Ram in a Thicket' figure, one of a pair, from Ur, Southern Iraq, 
File:Standard of Ur - War.jpg|Room 56 – The famous 'Standard of Ur', a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace, from Ur, 
File:British Museum Middle east 14022019 Panel Imdugud 2500 BC 3640.jpg|Room 56 - Sculpture of the god Imdugud, lion-headed eagle surmounting a lintel made from sheets of copper, Temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, Iraq, 
File:Statue Kurlil BM WA114207.jpg|Room 56 - Statue of Kurlil, from the Temple of Ninhursag in Tell al-'Ubaid, southern Iraq, 
File:Ishtar goddess.jpg|Room 56 – The famous Babylonian 'Queen of the Night relief' of the goddess Ishtar, Iraq, 
File:Carved ivory depicting a woman at a window.jpg|Room 57 - Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, Iraq, 9th–8th century BC
File:Jehu-on-Obelisk-of-Shalmaneser.jpg|Room 6 – Depiction of the hypocrite, Jehu, King of Israel on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Nimrud, c. 827 BC
File:Winged Human-headed Bulls.JPG|Room 10 – Human Headed Winged Bulls from Khorsabad, companion pieces in the Musée du Louvre, Iraq, 710–705 BC
File:BM; ANE - RM 55, Cuneiform Tablets Display.1.JPG|Room 55 – Cuneiform Collection, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, Iraq, –631 BC
File:Dying Lion.R.jpg|Room 55 – *[[Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal]]* (detail), Nineveh, Neo-Assyrian, Iraq, 
File:BabylonLion-BM.JPG|Room 55 - Panel with striding lion made from glazed bricks, Neo-Babylonian, Nebuchadnezzar II, Southern Iraq, 604–562 BC

File:Britishmuseumoxustreasuregoldchariotmodel.jpg|Room 52 – A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, the most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, c. 5th to 4th centuries BC
File:Decorated column base from Persepolis.jpg|Great Court - Decorated column base from Hundred Column Hall, Persepolis, 470–450 BC
File:Bmane2002-1-114,1.jpg|Room 53 - Stela said to come from Tamma' cemetery, Yemen, 1st century AD
File:British Museum Yemen 07d.jpg|Room 53 - Alabaster statue of a standing female figure, Yemen, 1st-2nd centuries AD
File:Brass box BM 1878 12-30 674.jpg|Room 34 - Cylindrical lidded box with an Arabic inscription recording its manufacture for the ruler of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu', Iraq,  – 1259 AD


### Department of Prints and Drawings


File:Rogier van der Weyden - Portrait of an unknown young woman - British Museum 180945001.jpg|Rogier van der Weyden - *[[Portrait of a Young Woman (van der Weyden)|Portrait of a Young Woman]]*, 
File:A fool, seated on a basket, about to be shaved by a nun holding a wafer iron by Hieronymus Bosch.jpg|Hieronymus Bosch - A comical barber scene, –1516
File:Botticelli, allegoria dell'abbondanza, disegno.jpg|Sandro Botticelli - *Allegory of Abundance*, 1480–1485
File:Leonardo da vinci, Study for the Burlington House Cartoon.jpg|Leonardo da Vinci – The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist (prep for 'The Burlington House Cartoon'), –1500
File:Adam study - Michelangelo.jpg|Michelangelo – Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco *[[The Creation of Adam|The Creation of Man]]* on the vault of the Sistine Chapel, 
File:Raffaello, studio di testa di madonna e bambino.jpg|Raphael – *Study of Heads, Mother and Child*, –1511
File:Titian - Drowning of the Pharaoh's Host in the Red Sea - WGA22989.jpg|Titian – *[[Crossing the Red Sea|Drowning of the Pharaoh's Host in the Red Sea]]*, 1515–1517
File:Albrecht Dürer - Walrus - WGA07101.jpg|Albrecht Dürer - Drawing of a walrus, 1521
File:A Lady, called Anne Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg|Hans Holbein the Younger - *Portrait of Anne Boleyn*, 1536
File:Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel - Allegory on Life and Death.jpg|Joris Hoefnagel and Jacob Hoefnagel - *Allegory on Life and Death*, circa 1598
File:Peter Paul Rubens - Study for the figure of Christ on the Cross (cropped).jpg|Peter Paul Rubens - *Study for the figure of Christ on the Cross*, 1610
File:Head of a monk, 1625-64, Francisco de Zurbarán. Drawing, 277 x 196 mm. British Museum.jpg|Francisco de Zurbarán - *Head of a monk*, 1625–1664
File:Drawing of mules by Claude Lorrain.jpg|Claude Lorrain - Drawing of mules, including one full-length, 1630–1640
File:The Lamentation at the Foot of the Cross by Rembrandt van Rijn.jpg|Rembrandt – *[[Lamentation of Christ|The Lamentation at the Foot of the Cross]]*, 1634–35
File:A woman with a rose drawn by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|Thomas Gainsborough - Drawing of a woman with a rose, 1763–1765
File:Newport Castle by JMW Turner.jpg|J. M. W. Turner - Watercolour of Newport Castle, 1796
File:The happy effects of that grand systom of shutting ports against the English!!.jpg|Isaac Cruikshank - 'The happy effects of that grand system of shutting ports against the English!!', 1808
File:Hampstead Heath by John Constable watercolour.jpg|John Constable - *London from Hampstead Heath in a Storm*, (watercolour), 1831
File:Notes Nocturne lithograph by James McNeill Whistler 1878.jpg|James McNeill Whistler - *View of the Battersea side of Chelsea Reach*, London, (lithograph), 1878
File:Van Gogh - In the Orchard - 1883.jpg|Vincent van Gogh - Man Digging in the Orchard (print), 1883


### Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory


File:British Museum Olduvai handaxe.jpg|Room 2 – Handaxe, Lower Palaeolithic, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 
File:Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o.jpg|Room 3 – Swimming Reindeer carving, France, 
File:Ain Sakhri Lovers - British Museum - Joy of Museums.jpg|Room 2 – Ain Sakhri lovers, from the cave of Ain Sakhri, near Bethlehem, 
File:British Museum gold thing 501594 fh000035.jpg|Room 51 – Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, –1600 BC
File:Wandsworth Shield.png|Room 50 – Wandsworth Shield, Iron Age shield boss in La Tène style, England, 2nd century BC
File:IronAgeTorcBritishMuseum.JPG|Room 50 – Gold torc found in Needwood Forest, central England, 75 BC
File:Roman emperor head.jpg|Room 49 - Bronze head of a Roman emperor, Claudius or Nero, from Rendham in Suffolk, eastern England, 1st century AD
File:Romano-British crown and diadem.jpg|Room 49 – Romano-British crown and diadem found in Hockwold cum Wilton, England 1st century AD
File:Mosaic2 - plw.jpg|Room 49 – Hinton St Mary Mosaic with face of Christ in the centre, from Dorset, southern England, 4th century AD
File:Corbridge lanx.jpg|Room 49 – Corbridge Lanx, silver tray depicting a shrine to Apollo, northern England, 4th century AD
File:British Museum Coleraine Hoard.jpg|Room 41 – Silver objects from the Roman Coleraine Hoard, Northern Ireland, 4th-5th centuries AD
File:Sutton Hoo helmet 2016.png|Room 41 – Sutton Hoo helmet, Anglo-Saxon, England, early 7th century AD
File:Virgin and Child BM PE1978-05.02-3.jpg|Room 40 – Ivory statue of Virgin and Child, who is crushing a dragon under her left foot from Paris, France, 1310-1330 AD
File:Chaucer Astrolabe BM 1909.6-17.1.jpg|Room 40 – Chaucer Astrolabe, the oldest dated in Europe, 1326 AD
File:British Museum Royal Gold Cup.jpg|Room 40 – Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup, made in Paris, France, 1370–80 AD
File:Holy Thorn Reliquary front 2018 (cropped).JPG|Room 2a – Holy Thorn Reliquary, made in Paris, 
File:Ship Clock at British Museum.jpg|Room 38 – Mechanical Galleon clock, Augsburg, Germany, around 1585 AD
File:Carillon Clock with Automata, by Isaac Habrecht - British Museum.jpg|Room 38 – Carillon clock with automata by Isaac Habrecht, Switzerland, 1589 AD
File:Inside the British Museum, London - DSC04228.JPG|Room 39 – Ornate clock made by Thomas Tompion, England, 1690 AD


### Department of Asia

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File:Poids cubiques harappéens - BM.jpg|Room 33 - Cubic weights made of chert from Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, 2600-1900 BC
File:Periodo degli zhou dell'est, coppia di vasi rituali hu. V sec. ac. 01.JPG|Room 33 - One of the hu from Huixian, China, 5th century BC
File:CrystalGoose.JPG|Room 33 - A hamsa sacred goose vessel made of crystal from Stupa 32, Taxila, Pakistan, 1st century AD
File:Death of the Buddha BM.jpg|Room 33 - Stone sculpture of the death of Buddha, Gandhara, Pakistan, 1st-3rd centuries AD
File:Ku K'ai-chih 001.jpg|Room 91a - Section of the Admonitions Scroll by Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi, China, c. 380 AD
File:Denesar Khera Buddha.JPG|Room 33 - Gilded bronze statue of the Buddha, Dhaneswar Khera, India, 5th century AD
File:Amitabha Buddha Statue, British Museum - panoramio.jpg|The Amitābha Buddha from Hancui on display in the museum's stairwell, China, 6th century AD
File:Luóhàn at British Museum.jpg|Room 33 - The luohan from Yixian made of glazed stoneware, China, 907-1125 AD
File:Goddess Ambika from Dhar.JPG|Sculpture of Goddess Ambika found at Dhar, India, 1034 AD
File:Tirthankaras.jpg|Sculpture of the two Jain tirthankaras Rishabhanatha and Mahavira, Orissa, India, 11th-12th century AD
File:British Museum Kang Hou Gui Top.jpg|Room 33 - Western Zhou bronze ritual vessel known as the "Kang Hou Gui", China, 11th century BC
File:Seated Avalokiteshvara BM OA 1985.5-11.1.jpg|Room 33 - A crowned figure of the Bodhisattva Khasarpana Avalokiteśvara, India, 12th century AD
File:British Museum Asia 2 (cropped).jpg|Room 33 - Covered hanging jar with underglaze decoration, Si Satchanalai (Sawankalok), north-central Thailand, 14th-16th centuries AD
File:Hu-shaped altar vessel BM 1989.0309.1.jpg|Room 33 - Hu-shaped altar flower vessel, Ming dynasty, China, 15th -16th centuries AD
File:Judge assistant hell BM OA1917.11-16.1 n02.jpg|Room 33 - An assistant to the Judge of Hell, figure from a judgement group, Ming dynasty, China, 16th century AD
File:British Museum Asia 41-2.jpg|Room 33 - Statue of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, gilded bronze. Nepal, 16th century AD
File:Indischer Maler um 1615 (I) 001.jpg|Portrait of Ibrâhîm 'Âdil Shâh II (1580–1626), Mughal Empire of India, 1615 AD
File:Utagawa Toyoharu (attributed to), Courtesans of the Tamaya House.jpg|Room 90 - Courtesans of the Tamaya House, attributed to Utagawa Toyoharu, screen painting; Japan, Edo period, late 1770s or early 1780s AD
File:SFEC BritMus Asia 027.JPG|Room 33 - Large statue of Buddha made of lacquer from Burma, 18th-19th century AD
File:Seated.Lama-01-British.Museum.jpg|Room 33 - Figure of seated Lama; of painted and varnished papier-mâché, Ladakh, India, 19th century AD


### Copyright settlement
Silimiin goli August yuuni 2023, British Museum nyɛla ban daa di alizama ni lahabali lɛbigira Yilin Wang din daa niŋ ka bɛ zaŋ lahabali shɛli o ni daa lɛbigi ka di nyɛ yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi tum tuma ka di pa o yidani la Qiu Jin.

### Tibet naming conventions
Silimiin goli January yuuni 2025, British Museum nyɛla Tibetan ni daa galim shɛba ka fii pirinla bɛ daa zami ni Tibet nyɛla  "Xizang," saha ŋɔ di nyɛla government of the People's Republic of China.

## Galleries
;Building

File:BM, Main Floor Main Entrance Hall ~ South Stairs.6.JPG|Main Staircase, *[[Discobolus]]* of Myron (the Discus-Thrower)
File:British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006.jpg|British Museum Reading Room
File:British Museum 2010-06-04 B.jpg|Ceiling of the Great Court and the black siltstone obelisks of Nectanebo II, 
File:Flickr - Nic's events - British Museum with Cory and Mary, 6 Sep 2007 - 183.jpg|Detail of an Ionic capital on a pilaster in the Great Court
File:England; London - The British Museum, Facade South Front ~ -Main Entrance + West Wing- Colonnade + The Africa Garden.2.jpg|African Garden – created by BBC TV programme Ground Force


;Museum galleries
*Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan*

File:BM, AES Egyptian Sculpture (Room 4), View South + Towards Assyrian Sculpture Gallery (Room 6).JPG|Room 4 – Egyptian Sculpture, view towards the Assyrian Transept
File:BM, AES Egyptian Sculpture (Room 4), View North.3.JPG|Room 4
File:Egyptian Gallery.JPG|Room 4


*Department of the Middle East*

File:BM; RM6 - ANE, Assyrian Sculpture 32 -East (N), Centre Island + North Wall- ~ Assyrian Empire + -Lamassu, Stela's, Statue's, Obelisk's, Relief Panel's & Full Projection.1.jpg|The British Museum, Room 6 – Assyrian Sculpture
File:BM; RM8 - ANE, Nimrud Palace Reliefs 75 South + East Wall (S) ~ Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 B.C) + Full Elevation & Viewing South.1.JPG|Room 8 – Pair of Lamassu from Nimrud and reliefs from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III
File:BM; RM7 - ANE, Nimrud Palace Reliefs 1 Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C) ~ Full Elevation & Viewing South.JPG|Room 7 – Reliefs from the North-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud
File:BM; ANE - RM 89, Assyrian Reliefs ~ Nineveh.JPG|Room 89 – Nimrud and Nineveh Palace Reliefs
File:BM; ANE - Nineveh, The Royal Lion Hunt (Room 10).JPG|Room 10 – Nineveh, The Royal Lion Hunt


*Department of Greece and Rome*

File:Parthenon Frieze.JPG|Room 18 – Ancient Greece
File:Tomb of Merehi 1.jpg|Room 20a – Tomb of Merehi and Greek vases, Lycia, 360 BC
File:British Museum - Room 85, Roman Portrait Sculpture.JPG|Room 85 – Portrait Sculpture, Roman
File:Townley Sculptures.JPG|Room 84 – Towneley Roman Sculptures
File:SFEC BritMus Roman 022.JPG|Main Staircase – *[[Discobolus]]*, Roman
File:The Townley Caryatid (anterior).jpg|Main Staircase – Townley Caryatid, Roman, 140–160 AD


### Digital and online
Museum ŋɔ nyɛla din mali saawara ni Google Cultural Institute din yɛn che ka bɛ lahabaya ŋɔ tooi be pohim zuɣu.

## Exhibitions
* *[https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/RP_Exhibitions_Chronology.pdf Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum]*, by Joanna Bowring (British Museum Research Paper 189, 2012) lists all temporary exhibitions from 1838 to 2012.
* Helen Wang, 2022. ‘Displays of money and medals at the British Museum, 1759 to 2022’, *Numismatic Chronicle* 182, pp.&nbsp;313–338.

*Forgotten Empire Exhibition* (October 2005 – January 2006)

File:Forgotten Empire Exhibition, (Room 5).1.JPG|Room 5 – Exhibitions Panorama
File:The British Museum, Room 5-Persepolis Bas-relief.jpg|Room 5 – The Persepolis Casts
File:BM; ANE - Forgotten Empire Exhibition, (Room 5).3.JPG|Room 5 – Exhibitions Relics
File:BM; ANE - Forgotten Empire Exhibition, The Cyrus Cylinder (Room 5).JPG|Room 5 – The Cyrus Cylinder


Bin din gbaai Silimiin goli January zaŋ hali ni Silimiin goli April yuuni 2012, museum ŋɔ nyɛla ban daa ti **, tuuli din daa galisi zaŋ n-ti  Hajj, di nyɛla musuliminima daantali dibaa anu la zaɣ'yini.

## Lihimi m-pahi
*2016–17 all-female UK terror plot 

## Notes

## Kundivihira

## Further reading

* Anderson, Robert (2005). *The Great Court and the British Museum*. London: The British Museum Press
* Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard. ''Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African and Pacific Art and the London Avant Garde''. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp.&nbsp;103–164. .
* Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard. "The Transcultural Roots of Modernism: Imagist Poetry, Japanese Visual Culture, and the Western Museum System" , *[[Modernism/modernity]]* Volume 18, Number 1, January 2011, pp.&nbsp;27–42. .
* Bowring, Joanna (2012). *[https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/RP_Exhibitions_Chronology.pdf Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum] * London: British Museum Research Paper 189.
* Caygill, Marjorie (2006). *The British Museum: 250 Years*. London: The British Museum Press
* Caygill, Marjorie (2002). *The Story of the British Museum*. London: The British Museum Press
* --do.-- (2009) *Treasures of the British Museum* London: The British Museum Press  (1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1992)
* Cook, B. F. (2005). *The Elgin Marbles*. London: The British Museum Press
* Esdaile, Arundell (1946) *[[The British Museum Library: a Short History and Survey]]*. London: Allen & Unwin
* Jacobs, Norman (2010) *Behind the Colonnade*. Stroud: The History Press
* Jenkins, Ian (2006). *Greek Architecture and its Sculpture in The British Museum*. London: The British Museum Press
* Francis, Frank, ed. (1971) *Treasures of the British Museum*. London: Thames & Hudson (rev. ed., 1975)
* Moser, Stephanie (2006). *Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at The British Museum*. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
* Reade, Julian (2004). *Assyrian Sculpture*. London: The British Museum Press
* Reeve, John (2003). *The British Museum: Visitor's Guide*. London: The British Museum Press
* Wilson, David M. (2002). *The British Museum: a history*. London: The British Museum Press

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