The British Museum: Its Antiquities and Civilizations from Prehistory to the Fall of the Roman Empire |
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18th dynasty 2nd century 4th century BC alphabet Amenophis ancient animals Antiquities Ashurbanipal Asia Minor Asiatic Assyrian Athenian Athens Babylon Babylonian Beaker bowl Britain British Museum Bronze Age building built burial central centre chariot civilization classical clay coffins culture Cycladic decorated deities Department depicted East Egypt Egyptian Room emperor empire Eridu example exhibits figures frieze Gallery goddess gold Greece Greek and Roman Harmondsworth head Hellenistic hieroglyphic Hittites houses hunting jewellery king Kingdom known land Lapith later lions London mainly Mediterranean Mesopotamia millennium Mycenae Mycenaean Nimrud Nineveh northern objects painted palace Paleolithic Palestine Parthenon Penguin Books period Persian portraits pottery Prehistoric probably reliefs represented Roman Britain Roman Life Room Rome royal scenes script sculptures seen Semitic settlements side silver slabs southern statue stone style Sumer Sumerian Syria temple Terracotta Thames & Hudson Thebes tomb Upper Uruk vessels wall Western Asia wooden