Surveys the highlights of the museum's collection of sculpture, treasure, porcelain, clocks, and jewelry, and describes the collectors, explorers, and archaeologists who helped develop the museum
From Achaemenid silver to the Ziwiye treasure, Alexander the Great to Jean-Antoine Watteau, through Greek vases, Japanese pottery, Nebuchadnezzar, Quetzalcoatl and the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Companion Guide provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the objects in the British Museum. There are more than 300 A-Z entries in which each chosen object is fully described and illustrated in colour.