British Museum

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition opens two weeks today http://ow.ly/iV4Ep

See this marble relief from the House of the Dionysiac Reliefs, Herculaneum, 1st century AD. It shows a ceremony in honour of the god of wine, Bacchus. — with Guy Howard-Evans, Hugh Walker and Paul Matthews.

 The eyes painted on Ankhef’s coffin should be by his head http://ow.ly/ircd2



The fine quality of Henutmehyt's funerary equipment shows that she was an individual of considerable wealth. http://ow.ly/isjG0


Cleopatra: died aged 17, 150 years after her famous namesake, Cleopatra VII http://ow.ly/ir7f2



Katebet’, Chantress of Amun, had only two remaining teeth due to old age http://ow.ly/isi10