{"id":609,"date":"2023-11-04T05:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T04:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=609"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:52:42","slug":"british-museum-to-digitize-all-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/british-museum-to-digitize-all-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"British Museum to Digitize All Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The British Museum in London has announced <\/strong>that it is planning to make digital <\/strong>copies of all of its objects. The process <\/strong>of digitizing millions of artifacts <\/strong>will take about 5 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement comes after the museum admitted<\/strong> that 2000 artifacts were missing from its vast <\/strong>collection. About 250 had already been recovered<\/strong>. According to<\/strong> museum a spokesperson, <\/strong>the objects may have been stolen by people working there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British Museum is among the largest in the world. It has many world-famous artifacts<\/strong>, including the Rosetta Stone<\/strong>, a collection of Egyptian mummies<\/strong>, as well as ancient jewellery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digitizing the whole collection will have two main objectives<\/strong> – to improve the museum’s security <\/strong>and allowing the public access<\/strong> objects that are not on display<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Rosetta Stone with writing in Greek and Egyptian letters, as well as ancient hieroglyphics<\/strong>
Image: <\/em>Hans Hillewaert \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>
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  • according to<\/strong> = as said by …<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • admit <\/strong>= to say that something exists or has happened<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • ancient <\/strong>= old, from a long time ago<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • announce <\/strong>= to say officially<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • artifact <\/strong>= an object that was made a long time ago and is historically important<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • digital<\/strong> = something that can only be seen on computers, tablets, smartphones etc..<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • jewellery <\/strong>= bracelets, rings, necklaces etc …<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • mummy<\/strong> = a dead body preserved by wrapping it in cloth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • objective <\/strong>= what you are trying to achieve<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • on display<\/strong> = are shown<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • process<\/strong> = job, task<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • public access<\/strong> = people who visit or are interested in the museum<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • recover <\/strong>= here : put back<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Rosetta Stone<\/strong> = an old stone found in Egypt in 1799, which made it possible to translate hieroglyphics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • security <\/strong>= here: keeping the objects safe<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • spokesperson <\/strong>= here: someone who speaks for the museum<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • vast <\/strong>= very large<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The British Museum in London has announced that it is planning to make digital copies of all of its objects. The process of digitizing millions of artifacts will take about 5 years. The announcement comes after the museum admitted that 2000 artifacts were missing from its vast collection. About 250 had already been recovered. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,46],"tags":[56,125,126,23],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-architecture","category-europe","tag-archaeology","tag-europe","tag-museum","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}