Scripts for analysing British Museum Collections

The data is collected from the online collection of British Museum.

The search criteria is the following:

• Place: Egypt
• Production date: 700 BC - 330 BC

It yielded 15.104 items. Some of those items are determined to be duplicated by pd.DataFrame. The elimination gave us the csv file, dully named as EgyptBritishMuseum-2021-03-05CSVUnique.csv. The date 2021-03-05 is the date of retrieval of the data. You'll notice that some items have very vague production dates (5th C to 5 AD, etc), or completely off the chart, like 980BC-780BC etc, I have no idea why.

I have added a very simple script that scrapes images from the given links in csv file as well. You just need to create a images folder under the data. Beware that the ssl verification is set to False in requests. Feel free to correct it if you are really concerned about it.

• pandas
• requests
• opencv
• scikit-learn