Watch the incredible skill and precision involved in creating a marble mortar and pestle from scratch. Skilled artisans ...

It's a big pestle, it stands just over a foot tall (about 35 cm), and the business end is a stone bulb, about the size of a cricket ball, and you can feel that it's been much used. Above the bulb ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Bird-shaped pestle (made 4 - 8,000 years ago). Stone, found in Papua New Guinea Lunch here at the British Museum staff canteen has always been a ...