The British Museum

Because Atlas Obscura doesn't have a tag just for the London Museum and because the points on the map all overlap.

6 Places

London, England

The Burney Relief

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

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London, England

Hoa Hakananai'a

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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London, England

The Lewis Chessmen

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

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London, England

Mold Gold Cape

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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London, England

Shield of Parade

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

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London, England

Wolf-God of Woodeaton

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

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