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Untitled - Design for the ball in the dream sequence in ‘Spellbound’, Salvador Dali

Today is #InternationalArchaeologyDay! To celebrate, we’re highlighting some wonderful artefacts from our collection and the archaeologists who discovered them. Here is a selection of objects discovered in archaeological digs from Abingdon all the way to Sanam, Egypt by Dame Kathleen Kenyon, Sir John Evans, Flinders Petrie, and Francis Llewellyn Griffith.

Sword fragment and hilt of Abingdon Sword from the late Anglo-Saxon period in Britain (AD 850 - 1066). Made from iron, niello, silver, and pattern welded. Discovered in Abindgon Parish, likely Buggs Mill, by Sir John Evans.

Skull discovered by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in Jericho, Palestine. Made with bone, clay and shell from the pre-pottery Neolithic period. See it on display on the Ground Floor.

God of Amun discovered by Francis Llewellyn Griffith, the first professor of Egyptology at Oxford, at Sanam, Sudan. Made from carved dark brown quartzite, c. 770 - 715 BC.

Today is #InternationalArchaeologyDay! To celebrate, we’re highlighting some wonderful artefacts from our collection and the archaeologists who discovered them. Here is a selection of objects discovered in archaeological digs from Abingdon all the way to Sanam, Egypt by Dame Kathleen Kenyon, Sir John Evans, Flinders Petrie, and Francis Llewellyn Griffith.

Sword fragment and hilt of Abingdon Sword from the late Anglo-Saxon period in Britain (AD 850 - 1066). Made from iron, niello, silver, and pattern welded. Discovered in Abindgon Parish, likely Buggs Mill, by Sir John Evans.

Skull discovered by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in Jericho, Palestine. Made with bone, clay and shell from the pre-pottery Neolithic period. See it on display on the Ground Floor.

God of Amun discovered by Francis Llewellyn Griffith, the first professor of Egyptology at Oxford, at Sanam, Sudan. Made from carved dark brown quartzite, c. 770 - 715 BC.