Search Results - "British Museum"

From the British museum to the longhouse: reclaiming the Pua Kumbu and revitalizing Iban cultural identity by Gregory Kiyai @ Keai

“…This powerful cultural object of the Iban people was handed over to The British Museum's collection and has never been returned to its place of origin. …”
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Medium, mediation and meaning: museum architecture as spatial storytelling -- a case study of the Ionic frieze in two Parthenon galleries by Lu, Fangqing

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Muzium universal sebagai bentuk neo-kolonialisme by Ahmad Farid Abd Jalal, Ahnaf Wafi Alias, Rahimin Affandi Abdul Rahim

“…Melalui analisis deklarasi 2002, penolakan repatriasi, strategi penjenamaan semula dan kajian kes British Museum, makalah ini mencadangkan pembaharuan paradigma muzium seperti yang dirintis oleh AL-ASAR berdasarkan prinsip keadilan sejarah dan epistemologi pelbagai.…”
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Plenitude of mathematics in architecture and its infinite possibilities: a review of parametric design by Nur Amalina Hanapi, Jakathisvaran, Syafa Sakinah Mustaffa, Hanna, Raid

“…Case studies, site visits and observations are conducted on selected buildings that used applied mathematics in the design process such as British Museum, England (parametric design), Sydney Opera House, Australia (algo rithm design), and Segrada Familia , Spain (sequence number). …”
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The Liversidge nugget collection: a new look at some old gold by Butt, C., Timms, Nicholas Eric

“…Liversidge bequeathed his collection of prepared specimens of nuggets, crystals and manufactured gold to the British Museum. The collection includes many of those featured in his publications, and their state of preservation is such that they can be examined by optical and scanning electron microscopy without further preparation. …”
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Site-seeing: postcards of Palestine/Israel and the visual construction of place, 1890s to 1990s by Rogers, Seonaid M.

“…This PhD thesis explores postcards depicting Palestine/Israel in the period from 1890 – 1990, from the archives of the British Museum and comparable collections, to analyse the ways in which commercial visual media of this type reflected, and at times shaped, national narratives and identit(ies). …”
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The economy of Rome in the communal period (1143-1398): a numismatic perspective by Valci, Mariele

“…This project focuses on the systematic examination of 5809 coins preserved in the coin cabinets of three of Rome’s major museums – Museo Nazionale Romano, Musei Capitolini and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana – and in the Department of Coins and Medals at The British Museum in London, and through the analysis of 26 finds recovered in excavations in the Colosseum and at the site of Tuscolo (c.30 km south-east of Rome). …”
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Qur’an and archeological discoveries: evidence from the Near East by Yaseen, Ghassan Taha

“…Noah identified in the Akkadian Tablets under the name of Ut-napishtim, which is considered to be the Babylonian Noah and it is mentioned in the tablet number eleven of the Epic of Gilgamesh (the flood story) and discovered among the many tablets from the Ashurbanipal’s library in the Nineveh and kept know in British Museum in London. Other prophets’ names appeared in the Ebla Tablets such as Abraham and Ishmael. …”
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