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Review: Hadrian: Empire and Conflict;
Temorary Exhibition at the British Museum

Peter Lewis finds a revealing portrait of the Roman Emperor Hadrian at the British Museum's latest exhibition on a historic world leader

"...Eleven nations loaned artefacts............The most spectacular are a colossal marble head, leg and foot, found only a year ago in Turkey.....they form the spectacularly theatrical introduction to the exhibition.........."

"......the exhibition is cerebrally demanding but very worthwhile. What distinguishes this unprecedented coming together of so many artefacts is that they do in a very real sense talk to each other and to us. Present experiences can indeed give us a better understanding of the past.........."