The Kendrick's Cave Decorated Horse Jaw (Welsh: Genogl Ogof Kendrick) is one of the finest pieces of portable artwork dated to the end of the last Ice Age or Late Glacial period that has been found in Britain. Others in Britain include the Robin...
Kendrick's Cave on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Wales, was the site of important archaeological finds by Thomas Kendrick in 1880. The site is a small natural cavern on the south of the Great Orme Head, a limestone massif on the seaward side of...
The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) is a clay tablet written c. 1750 BC in Akkadian cuneiform. It was sent to the copper merchant Ea-nāṣir in Ur by a dissatisfied customer. The tablet was discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley among similar...
Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was the first living example seen in Europe since Roman times. Instead the image is based on an...
The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BC that is now in the collection of the British Museum. It is thought to have decorated the outside of a hollow wooden box measuring 21.59 cm (8.50 in) wide by 49.53 cm (19.50 in) long,...
The David Vases are a pair of blue-and-white temple vases from the Yuan dynasty. The vases have been described as the "best-known porcelain vases in the world" and among the most important blue-and-white Chinese porcelains. Though they are fine...
The Ram in a Thicket is a pair of figures excavated at Ur (in modern southern Iraq), which date from about 2600–2400 BC. One is in the Mesopotamia Gallery in Room 56 of the British Museum in London; the other is in the University of Pennsylvania...
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP; also designated as papyrus British Museum 10057, pBM 10058, and Brooklyn Museum 37.1784Ea-b) is one of the best known examples of ancient Egyptian mathematics. It is one of two well-known mathematical papyri,...
The Tudor Heart Pendant is an early 16th century gold jewel associated with the marriage of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The pendant, decorated with the Tudor rose and Catherine’s pomegranate emblem, was discovered in Warwickshire in...
The Blau Monuments ("Blau’sche Steine") are a pair of inscribed stone objects from Mesopotamia now in the British Museum. They are commonly thought to be a form of ancient kudurru (boundary marker stone).
