The Trustees of the British Museum

INTRODUCTIONT^HE BRITISH MUSEUM is approaching tlie 250tli anniversary of its foundation. Its principal aims today areto be at the centre of international scholarship and to disseminate knowledge for the education, in the widest sense of the word, of all. This is achieved through display at the...

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INTRODUCTION The British Museum at Bloomsbury comprises the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, the National Library, and the British Museum collection of Prints and Drawings. The Natural History Collections are at South Kensington. The Departments at Bloomsbury are as follows:-...

introduction E gyptian mummies have an enduring fascination. The Walevolent mummy of the 1930s 'horror film' may have little in common with the genuine article, yet over the centuries the treatment of ancient mummies has often been strange and grotesque: they have been ground to powder for use...

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