As the waters of the Saddam Dam rose in 1984-5 the British Museum battled to record an important Late Assyrian site on the east bank of the Tigris. Part of a 7th-century BC building was uncovered. Specialist reports on the ceramics, bones and shells recovered provide further clues to daily life outside the Assyrian capital cities. Due to the fragmentary nature of the evidence recovered, this report lacks any real discussion of the significance of the site or the meaning of the evidence.

This volume presents details of 57 coin hoards from Roman Britain, all but two of which were discovered within the last ten years. They include a unique group of 110 plated denarii from northern Suffolk, a rare hoard of 2nd C gold aurei from Didcot Suffolk, and a late 4th C hoard of nearly 7,500 coins from Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire. All the hoards are listed in detail and the catalogues are complemented by pot drawings, discussions where relevant and plates.

Since time immemorial, inhabitants of the Western Grasslands of Cameroon in west Africa have been evolving an educational system devoid of literacy. Teaching focused on traditional crafts, including weaving, stitching of traditional dress, carving, sculpture, pottery, smelting of materials and smithing. The skills the people learned served them well, as many of them followed trades, vocations and professions that helped in improving the social and economic life of the area. This book aims to document those crafts in order for the people of Cameroon to have a record of these skills which are gradually dying out and to encourage them to continue to practise these ancient crafts. Each craft is described in some detail; the areas it is practised in, materials used, techniques involved. Photographs document stages of production and examples of the end result.

Second in a series publishing the entire Babylonian and Sumerian cuneiform holdings of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities. Over 8000 examples acquired by the British Museum in the years 1892-8 are described including major archives of the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods.

The text published here, for the first time, with translation and commentary, is a work attributed to Shenoute, the 4th-5th century abbot of the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The work is based on the theme God never turns his face from those who truly worship him, and contains six distinctive miraculous episodes.

A transcription of a day-long seminar held at the British Museum in 1995 to discuss aspects of display at the museum. Invited guests examined specific displays and were joined by many of the staff and other curators. A stimulating discussion ensued which makes fascinating reading for all involved with heritage management.

Visitors to Lima today may wonder what has happened to the native music of Peru. While the music of Brazil and Chile have spread across to other countries, Peru has been left behind. A notable exception to this statement is the immense popularity of the lambada . Today, Peru's record industry and radio are concerned almost exclusively with salsa and rock both of which have acquired uniquely Peruvian forms.

After the 1870s there was an explosion in print production via non-woodblock media in Japan. This study examines this development looking at a group of etchings issued from the 1830s to the 1880s that are now in the British Museum, the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, the Scottish National Library, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

This well-illustrated guide to Yemeni pottery, its techniques and its social context is based upon the British Museeum's Littlewood Collection, `the finest collection of 20th-century Yemeni pottery outside Yemen itself'.

A study of the Torajan ricebarn, a traditional Indonesian structure where the rice crop is stored, and where the main social life of the village takes place. This paper was stimulated by the construction of a ricebarn for the Museum of Mankind at the British Museum in 1987.

The third and final Sippar volume catalogues some 12,000 Babylonian tablets acquired by the British Museum between 1882 and 1895. The tablets, which are catalogued by date, include a large number of Old Babylonian examples.

Sixth in the series publishing the whole collection of Babylonian and Sumerian cuneiform tablets in the British Museum. In this volume over 10,000 Babylonian tablets acquired by the Museum in 1882 are described. The majority come from the archives of the Shamash temple at Sippar, and are dated to the Neo-Babylonian dynasties (625-331 BC).