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Sir Hans Sloane (Source)

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Montagu House, c.1715 (Source)

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The Rosetta Stone on display in the British Museum in 1874 (Source)

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Entrance ticket to the British Museum, London 3 March 1790 (Source)

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Left to Right: Montagu House, Townley Gallery and Sir Robert Smirke's west wing under construction, July 1828 (Source)

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The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Room, 1920s (Source)

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The Grenville Library, 1875 (Source)

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Opening of The North Wing, King Edward VII's Galleries, 1914 (Source)

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Sir Leonard Woolley holding the excavated Sumerian Queen's Lyre, 1922 (Source)

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The re-opened Duveen Gallery, 1980 (Source)

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Wide view of the Great Court (Source)

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The Great Court was developed in 2001 and surrounds the original Reading Room. (Source)

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The museum's main entrance (Source)

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Proposed British Museum Extension, 1906 (Source)

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External view of the World Conservation and Exhibition Centre at the museum, 2015 (Source)

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The Reading Room and Great Court roof, 2005 (Source)

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Room 61 The famous false fresco 'Pond in a Garden' from the Tomb of Nebamun, c.1350 BC (Source)

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Room 4 The Rosetta Stone, key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, 196 BC (Source)

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Room 17 Reconstruction of the Nereid Monument, c. 390 BC (Source)

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Room 18 Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis of Athens, 447 BC (Source)

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Room 21 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, mid-4th century BC (Source)

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Room 52 Ancient Iran with the Cyrus Cylinder, 559530 BC (Source)

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Gallery 50 View down the Roman Britain gallery (Source)

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Gallery 2a Display case of Renaissance metalware from the Waddesdon Bequest (Source)

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Room 33a Amaravati Sculptures, southern India, 1st century BC and 3rd century AD (Source)

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Room 95 The Percival David collection of Chinese ceramics (Source)

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Room 24 The Wellcome Trust Gallery of Living and Dying, with Hoa Hakananai'a, a moai, in the centre (Source)

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Room 25 A collection of African throwing knives (Source)

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A few of the Elgin Marbles (also known as the Parthenon Marbles) from the East Pediment of the Parthenon in Athens. (Source)

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