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This is the latest datable clay tablet in the British Museum. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac signs and the dates of their characteristic phenomena. Dates of solstices, equinoxes, and eclipses are also given. The...

The cuneiform inscription on this polished diorite weight states "I Darius, the great king, the son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian". This is an abbreviated version of a standard inscription on a series of stone weights of Darius, which can...

The outer shroud was painted with a full face figure of the dead girl, flanked by gods and goddesses. A painted pectoral of cartonnage represents the Ba of Cleopatra as a human-headed bird. She was the daughter of Candace (a member of the...

The associated cuneiform inscription tell the interesting story of this king. Following a popular revolt, Idrimi was forced to go into exile. Together with his mother's family, he went 1st to Emar (Meskene on the Euphrates), and then to Canaan...

The name of the boy was written in Demotic and appears below the left hand. He wears a short tunic with a cloak wrapped around the waist and draped over the left shoulder from behind. From Akhmim, Egypt. Graeco-Roman, 1st century BCE to 1st...

The constructional details of this case are not fully visible, but the materials used included linen and plant fibers. A painted bed-net on a pink background imitates the garment often shown worn by Osiris. The modeled arms and hands grasping...

This case is made from mud mixed with straw or chaff, with an outer skin of textile and an inner coating of plaster. The decoration is traditional Egyptian style, the surface is painted to represent a bead-net incorporating a collar, with...

The case is reconstructed from reused pieces of papyrus on which traces of writings are still visible. The plaster exterior surface represents the dead woman dressed in a pink undertunic, a 2nd tunic which is colored blue with red stripes...

This fine decorated pottery takes its name from the modern name of Tell Atchana, Alalakh. It was defined by the excavator Sir L. Woolley as a locally produced variant of the so-called "Nuzi Ware", a similarly fine and elaborated decorated...

An artist's impression of a scene of Roman Government.