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BY Culture24
02.03.2016
Object of the Week: A colossal Chinese Buddha statue which has just gone on display at the British Museum
Object of the Week: This week it's a 1,400-year-old, 19-foot Buddha which has just taken up residence on the centre well of the North Stairs at the British Museum Buddha Amitābha (Buddha of the...
BY Culture24
09.03.2016
Object of the Week: A 16th century bowling ball used to judge a man's character
Object of the Week: Split and distorted, this willow bowling ball was used in a variety of games at a 16th century mansion © Crossrail This wooden ball, found by archaeologists working on the huge...
BY Culture24
28.02.2016
Egyptologists use hospital CT scans to find 3,000-year-old fingerprints on prehistoric coffins
Ancient Egyptians were obsessed by life and had an urge to ensure its perfect continuation. Cambridge is the go-to place for coffins illustrating how they did it A full length view of the coffin...
BY Culture24
29.02.2016
Here's the science: six artists collaborate with six biologists for illuminating show at QUAD
Science and art combine in a meeting of cells, code and more at Derby QUAD boredomresearch, AfterGlow (2016), video still © boredom research Towards the end of Samantha Moore’s film Loop, a...
BY EUROPEANA
25.02.2016
The Greatest Traveller in History? The Life and Places of Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, or ‘Abu Abd al-Lah Muhammad ibn Abd al-Lah l-Lawati t-Tangi ibn Batutah’ to give him his full name, is a strong contestant for the greatest traveller in history. Not only did he travel...
BY Culture24
25.02.2016
"That's what archaeology is all about": Mesolithic shaman's necklace in Yorkshire could be earliest art from period found in Britain
Carvings on a fragile necklace found near Scarborough are telling archaeologists about the first permanent settlers of Britain after the last Ice Age - and are about to go on display in York © Harry...
BY Culture24
25.02.2016
"It's a sort of build-up of gunge": Public tours of tunnels beneath Brighton's Royal Pavilion
Stretching along 60 subterranean metres beneath George IV's exotic pleasure palace, limewash is the only constant on the walls of the Royal Pavilion's dark tunnels The passages beneath the former...
BY Culture24
24.02.2016
Giant coffins and Gas Contamination Rooms: Nine pictures from the Bank of England's photographic vault
The rediscovered coffin of giant 18th century bank clerk William Jenkins and a view of VE Day from the roof are among the photos in the Bank of England's four-century collection The Dealing Room at...
BY Culture24
24.02.2016
Object of the Week: An American Civil War buggy owned by a priest from Armagh
Object of the Week: This week we bring you an American Civil War buggy which belonged to a priest from Co Armagh who received the dying and wounded © PressEye This buggy belonged to Father Arthur...
BY EUROPEANA
23.02.2016
Travelling through Mongolia with two gramophones
Enjoy a guest post by Sabine Schostag, Statsbiblioteket , edited by Imogen Greenhalgh. A version of this post appeared first on February 4, 2016 on Europeana Sounds blog . This is a story about...
BY Culture24
24.02.2016
Andy Warhol brings stardust to the Ashmolean in Oxford with 100 hardly-seen works
A new exhibition at the Ashmolean shows how Warhol's experiments kept arts writers busy for decades - and features a marathon film of the Empire State Tower Andy Warhol, Self Portrait © The Andy...
BY Culture24
23.02.2016
Rosé, Red Rum and the voice of racing: The archive of commentator Peter O'Sullevan is going on display in London
Known as the voice of racing until his death in July 2015, Peter O'Sullevan was also the Chair of a gallery where some of the best bits of his archive are about to be revealed The collection of the...
BY Culture24
22.02.2016
"They crave experiences that are human": Is this algorithm and phone-free London space the future of bookshops?
A new bookshop in London aims to leave digital distractions behind and seize upon a perceived technological tipping point (Left to right) Jessica Fogarty, Paddy Butler and director Sally Davies are...
BY EUROPEANA
21.02.2016
The echoes of Verdun
Though Verdun is the name of a charming provincial town, it also belongs to one of the most important lieu de mémoire in European history – a great battle in World War One. Today, the name...
BY Culture24
21.02.2016
From Liverpool to London, the two "thoughtful and detailed" major exhibitions telling stories of the Pre-Raphaelite
London's Leighton House Museum and Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery have just opened two major Pre-Raphaelite exhibitions Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection at...
BY Culture24
19.02.2016
Fame and fortune: Win an Andy Warhol print
Art is what you can get away with, according to Andy Warhol - but you could also bag yourself a special print inspired by the great artist © King & McGaw Art publisher and online print retailer...
BY Culture24
18.02.2016
Metre-wide wheel found at Must Farm shows Bronze Age transport and technological ingenuity, say archaeologists
Archaeologists have found a large intact wheel at Must Farm's astonishing time capsule of Bronze Age Britain © Cambridge Archaeological Unit / Dave Webb An “unprecedented” large prehistoric wheel...
BY Culture24
19.02.2016
Finds in Ancient Egyptian rubbish dumps inspire "world's largest archaeological project"
Touted as the world’s largest archaeological project, an online search for clues is crowd-sourcing the details of ancient lives in Egypt - from 19th century rubbish dumps Excavations at Oxyrhynchus,...
BY Culture24
16.02.2016
Archaeologists investigate remnants of building at site of Scotland's Massacre of Glencoe
The remains of a building from a mass murder in the Scottish highlands could have been found on the 324th anniversary of the shocking massacre The remnants of a building which could have been part...
BY EUROPEANA
15.02.2016
