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Did you know ...

• on his death in 1727, antiquary and historian Thomas Madox's unpublished notes ran to ninety-four volumes, which his wife later left to be added to the British Museum's Sloane library?
• a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several years before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
• the Admonitions Scroll (detail pictured), a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903?
• the Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum bears the inscription "This is a thorn from the crown Of Our Lord Jesus Christ"?
• the Nereid Monument was constructed in the British Museum in 1969 from material brought from Lycia in 1840?
• the Lothair Crystal, an engraved gem now in the British Museum, was once sold for ten pounds?
• a part of the Parthenon Frieze currently at the British Museum used to be kept at Marbury Hall in Cheshire, England?
• a ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle made by Thomas Earnshaw is now in the British Museum?
• Charles Gray was one of the original trustees of the British Museum?
• Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum?
• Minuscule 644 was bought by the British Museum from Constantine Simonides, a forger of manuscripts?
• The British Museum Friends recently provided funding to help the British Museum acquire twelve Greek papyri from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri?
• British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh was a self-taught artist, yet managed to fool the British Museum, the Tate Modern, and Bonhams, Sotheby's and Christie's?
• English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides, which he left in his will to the British Museum?