British Museum Collection

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Anglo-Saxon brooch of the Kentish type, from the British Museum

Horse of Selene from the Parthenon
Horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon, from the British Museums collection

The Babylonian Map of the World, c. 510-c. 500 BC. Artist: Assyrian Art
The Babylonian Map of the World, c. 510-c. 500 BC. Found in the collection of British Museum

The March of intellect, 1829. Artist: Heath, William (1795-1840)
The March of intellect, 1829. Found in the collection of British Museum

The Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room, 1818. Artist: Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)
The Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room, 1818. Found in the collection of British Museum

Fragment of wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c1350 BC. Though a standard subject for a Theban tomb painting, this banquet scene is one of the finest examples

The Battersea Shield, Celtic, from early Iron Age in the first century AD, British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The Man of Sorrows. Title-page to Small Passion. c1511, (1906). Artist: Albrecht Durer
The Man of Sorrows. Title-page to Small Passion. c1511, (1906). The drawing is held by the British Museum, London. From The Engravings of Albert Durer, by Lionel Cust. [Seeley and Co

Bronze head of Augustus, Roman, from Meroe, Sudan, c27-c25 BC. This head once formed part of a statue of the emperor Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). From the British Museums collection

Great Court, the British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A Condottiere, 1480, (1932). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
A Condottiere, 1480, (1932). From the collection of the British Museum, London. From Master Draughtsmen No. 2 - Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, from Thebes, Egypt, c1550 BC
Detail of the Rhind mathematical papyrus, showing mathematical problems, from Thebes, Egypt, End of the Second Intermediate Period, c1550 BC

Pottery cremation urn, from a grave at Loveden Hill
Pottery cremation urn, from a cremation grave in a cemetery at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century

Reading Room of the Great Library at the British Museum seen from the Entrance, c1935. The circular Reading Room of the British Museum in central London was designed by Sydney Smirke (1798-1877)

Ceramic figurine of a Mother Goddess, sitting in a chair and nursing a baby, 2nd century
Ceramic figurine of a Mother Goddess, sitting in a chair and nursing a baby, Romano-British, 2nd century. This piece is mould-made from pipeclay and was found in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England

The Pitney Brooch, Anglo-Scandinavian, second half of the 11th century. Disc-brooch of gilt copper-alloy from Pitney, Somerset, England. It is decorated in an English variant of the Urnes style

Part of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, 5th century BC
Part of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, showing part of the Panathenaic procession, 5th century BC. From the British Museums collection

Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi, 1532. Creator: Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi, 1532. Found in the Collection of British Museum

Detail of the Elgin Marbles, 5th century BC. Artist: Phidias
Detail of the Elgin Marbles, showing the Panathenaic procession and a sacrificial animal. From the British Museums collection, 5th century BC

Reading Room
circa 1925: The Reading Room at the British Museum where Karl Marx was a frequent visitor. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Herbert Felton/Getty Images)

Reading Room, British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The Royal Society (engraving)
1046913 The Royal Society (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Royal Society, a Portrait Group of some of the Most Distinguished Fellows)

London, British Museum, Reading Room (b / w photo)
733703 London, British Museum, Reading Room (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: London, British Museum)

Street scene and the British Museum (coloured engraving)
605386 Street scene and the British Museum (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Street scene and the British Museum, in Bloomsbury, London)

The British Museum (coloured engraving)
558575 The British Museum (coloured engraving) by Butler, Augustus (fl.1854); Private Collection; (add.info.: The British Museum.); Look and Learn / Peter Jackson Collection; English, out of copyright

Clay tablet with linear B script, 15th century BC
Clay tablet from Knossos with linear B script, from the British Museums collection, 15th century BC

The British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK

South metope XXXI from the Parthenon marbles depicting part of the battle between the Centaurs and Lapiths. 5th century BC. Athens. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.

A group of children outside the British Museum. Illustration from 'London town'
BL3304278 A group of children outside the British Museum

Chrysippos, about 1853-1859. Creator: Roger Fenton
Chrysippos, about 1853-1859. Additional Info: Portrait bust in the British Museum

British Museum
UIG2910538 British Museum; (add.info.: 1890 Photograph of British Museum, London, England. Dated 1890.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Thomas Young (1773-1829) English physicist and Egyptologist. Undulatory (wave) theory of light. Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Thomas Young (1773-1829), English physicist and Egyptologist. Undulation theory (wave theory) of light. Decipherment of the Rosetta Stone

Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish collector and physician. Donated the Chelsea Physick Garden, which was laid out on his estate in Chelsea, London, to the Apothecaries Company

The facsimile from the manuscript of Heliand, the Cotex Cottonianus of the British Museum at London, historical image or illustration, published 1890, digitally improved

A facsimile of the papyrus with the Aristotelian Constitution of Athens, ca. 330 BC, Der Staat der Athener, vermutlich von Aristoteles, die Verfassung von Athen, um 330 v. Chr

Thomas Young, 1773 - 1829, British polymath at the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology

Thomas Young, 1773 - 1829, British polymath at the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology

Thomas Young, 1773 - 1829, British polymath at the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology

Marduk fights with the dragon to save humanity from evil, relief from Nimrud, Iraq, Asia

Reconstitution of the statue traditionally identified as Artemisia II of Caria, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

The Rosetta Stone, a stele with hieroglyphic and Demotic and Ancient Greek

The second meeting of Chancellor Willy Brandt with GDR MP Willi Stoph on 21 May 1971 in Kassel was accompanied by a large number of statements for

The second meeting of Chancellor Willy Brandt with GDR MP Willi Stoph on 21 May 1971 in Kassel was accompanied by a large number of statements for

The second meeting of Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt with GDR MP Willi Stoph on 21 May 1971 in Kassel was accompanied by a large number of statements for

The British Museum, London, ca 1895, England, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Ashur-nasir-pal II on the throne, Ashur is guardian of the heir to the throne, was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 B. C

British Museum London, England, 1848, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century master

Interior of an oratory or private chapel, England, 16th century. Altar under a canopy, candlesticks, table with Bible and rosary, fan, bucket, vases

Crusader knights in chainmail armour, 13th century
Kneeling knight from the First Crusade, from a manuscript in the British Museum, and standing knight from the Constitutiones Jacobi II, 1295, Bibliotheque de Bourgogne a Bruxelles

Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis. East Indian blue jay, Coracias indica. From a specimen brought from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by John Gideon Loten now in the British Museum

Reading room of British Museum, Engraving
DGA766967 Reading room of British Museum, Engraving; Photo © NPL - DeA Picture Library. Please note: This photograph requires additional permission prior to use

Exterior view from the south-west showing the front elevation of the British Museum
EHT5890662 Exterior view from the south-west showing the front elevation of the British Museum, 1875-95 (b/w photo) by London Stereoscopic Company (1854-1922); (add.info.: British Museum)

The front elevation of the British Museum, seen from the south-west, 1875-95 (b/w photo)
EHT5890660 The front elevation of the British Museum, seen from the south-west, 1875-95 (b/w photo) by London Stereoscopic Company (1854-1922); (add.info.: British Museum, Great Russell Street)

A perspective view of the exterior of the British Museum, 1870-1900 (b/w photo)
EHT5890659 A perspective view of the exterior of the British Museum

Stereo exterior view of the British Museum showing the portico, 1870-1900 (b/w photo)
EHT5890657 Stereo exterior view of the British Museum showing the portico

Exterior view of the British Museum, 1870-1900 (b/w photo)
EHT5890656 Exterior view of the British Museum, 1870-1900 (b/w photo) by York and Son (1870-1900); (add.info.: designed in 1823 by Sir Robert Smirke and completed in 1852)

The Reading Room of the British Museum, London, under construction, 1855 (albumen print)
BL5890768 The Reading Room of the British Museum, London, under construction, 1855 (albumen print) by Price, William Henry Lake (1810-91); British Library, London

Facade of the British Museum, London, 1850-59 (albumen print)
BL5890764 Facade of the British Museum, London, 1850-59 (albumen print) by English Photographer, (19th century); British Library, London

The Reading Room of the British Museum, London, under construction, 1855 (albumen print)
BL5890767 The Reading Room of the British Museum, London, under construction, 1855 (albumen print) by Price, William Henry Lake (1810-91); British Library, London

Portico of the British Museum, London, 1850-59 (albumen print)
BL5890765 Portico of the British Museum, London, 1850-59 (albumen print) by English Photographer, (19th century); British Library, London

Plan of the British Museum, 1930 (engraving)
BL5613716 Plan of the British Museum, 1930 (engraving) by English School, (20th century); British Library, London, UK; (add.info.: Summary Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum)

The front elevation of the British Museum, seen from the east, 1875-95 (b/w photo)
EHT5890661 The front elevation of the British Museum, seen from the east, 1875-95 (b/w photo) by London Stereoscopic Company (1854-1922); (add.info.: British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury)

A perspective view of the front of the British Museum from the West, 1870-1900 (b/w photo)
EHT5890658 A perspective view of the front of the British Museum from the West

Meditation flash mob at the British Museum, London Meditation flash mob to promote peace and positivity at the British Museum, London

The Present Elgin Room at the British Museum (engraving)
5231131 The Present Elgin Room at the British Museum (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Present Elgin Room at the British Museum)

A bust of a warrior in profile to left, 1475-1480. Creator: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
A bust of a warrior in profile to left, 1475-1480. Found in the Collection of British Museum

British Museum, London, England, Great Britain

British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, England

Wrights Brothers Plane in London
Schoolboys look at the Wright 1903 Flyer during its stay at the London Science Museum because of a disagreement between Orville Wright and the Smithsonian Institute

Imitation of a Kushan coin from Samatata. King Kanishka (obverse), Goddess standin (reverse), 2nd-3rd century. Found in the Collection of the British Museum

Relics from Abyssinia: gold and silver chalices, 1868. Creator: Unknown
Relics from Abyssinia: gold and silver chalices, 1868

Group of images inside the crater of Otuiti, Easter Island, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Group of images inside the crater of Otuiti, Easter Island, 1869. Mr. J

Facsimile of two pages of an Abyssinian Bible, 1868. Creator: Unknown
Facsimile of two pages of an Abyssinian Bible, 1868. Mr

Portland vase in the British Museum
FLO4974647 Portland vase in the British Museum. Cameo vase in blue and white glass with historical or mythological figures

depiction of ancient warriors with spears on horseback from a very ancient vase in the British Museum
FLO4974646 depiction of ancient warriors with spears on horseback from a very ancient vase in the British Museum. Copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc

Patera in the British Museum. Shallow ceramic dish with mythological or historical figures with parasol and vase
FLO4974642 Patera in the British Museum. Shallow ceramic dish with mythological or historical figures with parasol and vase

From a very ancient vase in the British Museum decorated with a man riding a two-horse chariot
FLO4679311 From a very ancient vase in the British Museum decorated with a man riding a two-horse chariot, another man with a spear

Vase with depiction of a festival to Bacchus
FLO4679507 Vase with depiction of a festival to Bacchus, woman holding vine leaf with basket on her head, and two men holding torch and javelins. In the British Museum

Additional Library at the British Museum
FLO4669753 Additional Library at the British Museum. The British Museum had 13 miles of shelves and its catalog of books ran to 61 folio volumes

Michelangelo, from a print in the British Museum, 1827 (lithograph)
5912823 Michelangelo, from a print in the British Museum, 1827 (lithograph); (add.info.: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance)

Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the 12th century 1-12
FLO4987883 Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the 12th century 1-12, and 13th century 13

Fictile vases in the British Museum
FLO4679319 Fictile vases in the British Museum. Vases in red clay with black decorative patterns. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc

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The British Museum in London, England is a treasure trove of history and culture from all corners of the world. One of its most famous exhibits is the Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Visitors marvel at this artifact that unlocked the secrets of an ancient civilization. Another fascinating piece on display is the Battersea Shield, dating back to the early Iron Age in the first century AD. This Celtic masterpiece showcases intricate designs and craftsmanship that transport you back in time. For lovers of Greek mythology, the Horse of Selene from the Parthenon is a must-see. This stunning sculpture captures the grace and power of these mythical creatures. Art enthusiasts will appreciate Albrecht Durer's "The Man of Sorrows, " a poignant depiction that evokes deep emotions. The attention to detail and skillful technique make it a true masterpiece. Stepping into the Great Court at the British Museum feels like entering another world altogether. The grandeur and architectural beauty are awe-inspiring, making it a favorite spot for visitors to gather and soak in their surroundings. History buffs can explore artifacts like an Anglo-Saxon brooch or Leonardo da Vinci's portrayal of A Condottiere from 1480. These pieces offer glimpses into different eras and cultures, showcasing humanity's rich heritage. Delving further into Britain's past, pottery cremation urns from Loveden Hill reveal insights into Anglo-Saxon burial practices during the 6th-7th century. It serves as a reminder that even everyday objects hold stories waiting to be discovered. Capturing moments frozen in time, vintage photographs depict scenes both inside and outside this iconic institution. From street views with bustling crowds to serene reading rooms filled with knowledge seekers, they showcase how integral this museum has been throughout history. Whether you're fascinated by ancient civilizations or intrigued by artistic masterpieces, visiting London's British Museum promises an unforgettable journey through time and across continents.