These photos from the British Museum's upcoming Sunken Cities exhibition

These photos from the British Museum's upcoming Sunken Cities exhibition show not only some of the effort in creating an exhibition, but also the scale of the artefacts, not to mention providing a stimulus to consider how the originals would have been set in place.

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How do you winch 6-tonne, 5-metre statues upright and into place? Go behind the scenes and discover how these colossal statues are being installed in our #SunkenCities‬ exhibition.

Read the full articles in The Guardian http://ow.ly/10ga3w and The Times http://ow.ly/10gaVO (£)