The Department of Egypt and Sudan houses an extensive collection that offers unique insights into the peoples and cultures of the Nile Valley, from the Palaeolithic (about 14,000 BC) until the present ...

Visit Room 23 to enjoy many sculptures that are Roman versions of Greek originals. During the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean in the second and first centuries BC, Greek sculpture was both admired ...

Get closer to Greek Revival architecture at the British Museum. In the 1820s, the English architect Sir Robert Smirke (1780–1867) designed an extraordinary new home for the British Museum. He chose to ...