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Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Ashmolean Museum Presentations |
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 AMPs
are a series of web pages that expore various themes and subjects that
relate the Ashmolean's collections
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| Intended Audience: Anyone with an interest in Art and Archaeology | ||||||||
| Ancient Cyprus | ||||||||
 The
Ashmolean Museum has a large collection of archaeological material from
Cyprus. The collection is representative of human history on the island,
and is of international importance. The collection
provides an excellent resource for the study of the archaeology of the
island. Far from being a scientific resource alone, the collections provide
surprising and often amusing insights into the lives of the ancient inhabitants
of this Mediterranean island. These pages have been created as part of
a documentation project funded by the Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) with the aims of improving access
to the collection and displaying the material to a far wide audience than
is possible in the museum building alone.
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| Iraq - Navel of the World | ||||||||
"Iraq
is the navel of the world", declared the 9th-century historian Yaqubi,
"and Baghdad is at its centre". This online exhibition brings
together some highlights of the Ashmolean Museum's collection of ancient
and pre-modern Iraqi objects to illustrate some aspects of past lives
in the land that has been called the cradle of civilisation.
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| Exploring the Past through the Work of E.T. Leeds and A2A | ||||||||
 This
website contains information about the life and work of E.T. Leeds, the
archive of his papers held at the Ashmolean Museum, and details of Anglo-Saxon
sites in Oxfordshire. There are online galleries the artefacts from some
of these sites which are now in the Ashmolean Museum.
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| ANGLO-SAXON DISCOVERY | ||||||||
  Take
a journey through Anglo-Saxon life and death based on objects in the
Ashmolean Museum. This website is designed for children age 7-11 (Key
Stage 2). There are related games and activites, as well as advice for
teachers wishing to use the website. You can take a virtual tour of
the Anglo-Saxon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum (now closed), find out
about Anglo-Saxon Oxford and meet the Vikings. |
| Preserving and Enhancing Access to Historic Oxfordshire | |
 At
the Ashmolean Museum five documentary archives have been identified, each
associated with a major figure in the history of the archaeological investigation
of Oxfordshire, c.1870–c.1950. All of these archives are striking
for the importance of the information they contain and for the current
lack of knowledge concerning their contents in the public domain. This
project is integrating the information with the Oxfordshire Records Office
and Oxfordshire Sites and Monuments Record to make the information freely
available for local history and other research.
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University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 2004 The Ashmolean Museum retains the copyright of all materials used here and in its Museum Web pages. Last updated: jcm/12-dec-2004 |
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