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Irving Finkel of the British Museum explains how royal scribes wrote the Amarna Letters in Babylonian cuneiform and softened kings' threats into polite diplomacy, with animated maps and letter cards. Interview footage: The British Museum, Curator's Corner Ep100; map data: Natural Earth.
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Irving Finkel of the British Museum reads the Amarna Letters, in which the king of Babylon and Tushratta of Mitanni complain to Pharaoh about delayed messengers and gold, with animated maps and letter cards. Interview footage: The British Museum, Curator's Corner Ep100; map data: Natural Earth.
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Irving Finkel of the British Museum tells how the Amarna Letters, the pharaohs' cuneiform diplomatic tablets, were found at Amarna in Egypt in 1887 and sold off as old clay, with an animated map. Interview footage: The British Museum, Curator's Corner Ep100; map data: Natural Earth.
Animated map of the Terracotta Army pits near Xi'an and Qin Shi Huang's unopened tomb mound, with photos of the warriors. Maps from AWS Terrain Tiles, Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap; photos via Wikimedia Commons.
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A video showing a piece of antler being used to make small depressions in a piece of still damp clay. Then hot liquid white metal is poured into the hole, and the antler pressed Into it to make a shallow cap shape. These small silver coloured domes are replica viking gaming pieces
Animated map of Maya lidar discoveries in Campeche and Guatemala: Valeriana and 6,764 structures from a forest-carbon survey, plus PACUNAM lidar around Tikal. Lidar images: Auld-Thomas et al. 2024, Antiquity, CC BY 4.0.
Sébastien Rey of the British Museum on Gudea's temple at Girsu. Video: The British Museum, Curator's Corner.
Irving Finkel of the British Museum on the Lewis Chessmen. Video: The British Museum, Curator's Corner.
Animated map of the Roman road network from the 2025 Itiner-e atlas, with photos of the Via Appia, a milestone and the Peutinger Table.
Hadrian's Wall and Vindolanda: open-licence photos of the wall, milecastles and the Vindolanda tablets, with narration and captions.
Rectangular earrings with blue and ponk and white painted bands, with silver tone tiny trowels. Against brown card background
Christopher Rollston of George Washington University on the Mesha Stele (Louvre) and the forged Moabite pieces that followed its discovery. Lecture: Philosophical Society of Washington (PSW Science). Images: Wikimedia Commons (Mbzt, CC BY-SA 4.0; Tangopaso, public domain). Music: Pixabay.
British Museum curator Thorsten Opper on the bronze Head of Nero found in the River Alde, Suffolk. Video: The British Museum, Curator's Corner. Music: Pixabay.
British Museum curator Dr Daniel Antoine on infrared images revealing tattoos on the Gebelein mummies. Video: The British Museum, Curator's Corner. Music: Pixabay.
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Dr Lee Clare of the German Archaeological Institute on Göbekli Tepe's T-pillars. Interview: Archaeology with Flint Dibble. Photos: DAI Göbekli Tepe Archive. Music: Pixabay.
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