The hoard was declared to be treasure in October and is currently held in the British Museum in London.
The marbles, ancient sculptures which once adorned the Parthenon in Athens, have been held in the British Museum since 1811.
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The hoard, currently in the British Museum in London, contained coins bearing the name of a previously-unknown Viking ruler of northern England.
About half of what survives of the temple decoration is in the British museum in London, including 247 ft of the original 524 ft frieze.
The DNA samples used to identify a "true" wildcat include a Victorian specimen kept in the British Museum - providing a sample with 63, 000 genetic markers.
"There has been a misconception that the entirety of the collection is in the British Museum, " said Freddie New, of the British Committee For The Restitution Of The Parthenon Marbles.
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The only known bowl of the same form, size and almost identical decoration has been in the collection of the British Museum in London for more than 60 years, after being left to the museum by the prominent British collector Henry J Oppenheim in 1947.
The only other known bowl of the same size, form and almost identical decoration has been in the collection of the British Museum in London for over 60 years, according to Sotheby's.
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The find, which is being called the 'Near North Cove hoard', is in the possession of the British Museum.
With make-believe Anglo names such as Wilton and Tarts, the counterfeit Brits were sold by the thousands, and examples can be found today in the formidable British Museum collection.
The final irony is that Stein risked his life to unearth treasures from the sands of the Taklamakan Desert only to have them buried in the basement of the British Museum.
Other museums and galleries on the list include the National Army Museum and the British Library in London, and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
They were shared among museums in Pennsylvania, Baghdad and the British Museum in London.
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Some of the 130, 000 tablets that were obtained by the British Museum in the 1870s have not yet been translated, and surprising discoveries are still being made, linking Babylonian and biblical texts.
The double portrait - the only one of its kind to have been found in the area - is one of the highlights of the British Museum's Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum which opens this week.
Dr Andrew Burnett, the deputy director of the British Museum in Bloomsbury, and Anthony Burton, who chairs the Royal Court theatre in west London, are appointed CBEs.
More than 250 archaeological remains from the lives of people in the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum will feature in a new exhibition at the British Museum next year.
Mr Lane took a special interest in the two patches, learning that the British Museum had never determined what was under them even though the map had been in its collection since 1866 and was on show in 2007 as part of the quadricentennial of Jamestown, Virginia, the site of England's first permanent colony in America.
In a lecture at the British Museum, Mantel said Catherine appeared to have been "gloss-varnished" with a perfect plastic smile, and having no personality.
The same kind of thinking occurs in Foster's unfinished project for the British Museum.
The items will remain at the British Museum in London until they are declared treasure and valued.
Now displayed at the British Museum in London, the friezes are a matter of dispute between the governments of the UK and Greece, with the latter calling for their return.
Now, 3, 000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London.
Described by John Curtis, keeper of special Middle East projects at London's British Museum, as "one of the most iconic objects in the museum, " it is a small, unremarkable oblong of clay almost 9 inches long and 4 inches in circumference.
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Fortunately, surviving collections of objects curated at the Museo del Oro in Bogota and British Museum in London can provide an insight into these different perspectives on material value and human perception and most importantly tell the true story behind the myths of El Dorado.
The desire to see them in museums is not as important as the right of the owners to receive them back and museums such as the British Museum would do well to act less arrogantly in these matters.
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The winner will be announced on 22 May at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London during Museum and Galleries Month 2008.
Mr Cook suggested the British Museum could have an annex in Athens and in return would be able to show more Greek antiquities in Britain.
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