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Ad Gefrin will display rare and never before seen objects to celebrate the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age

In all their ruined glory a Beirut house and ancient glassware are recreated or restored, two years after the city’s devastating port explosion. Plus, a magnificent snapshot of postwar Britain’s industrial might

Eight objects from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods were shattered in port explosion two years ago

Eight ancient glass vessels shattered in the 2020 Beirut explosion go on display at the British Museum from Thursday, walking visitors through the painstaking international project to piece them back together. The vessels, from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods, were reconstructed at the world-famous museum's conservation laboratories, and will…

London (AFP) - Eight ancient glass vessels shattered in the 2020 Beirut explosion go on display at the British Museum from Thursday, walking visitors through the painstaking international project to piece them back together.

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Delegates from the Yahgan and Kawéskar communities visited London last month to study the artifacts for the first time.

By studying the ratio of metals in coins from ancient China's Bronze Age, researchers may have cracked formulas that described mysterious components called Jin and Xi and complicated our view of the era's metal manufacturing.