A 3,000-year-old gold pendant, or bulla, has been bought by the British Museum in London for £250,000. Discovered by a metal detectorist in Shropshire in 2018, the pendant is decorated with geometric motifs, including what on one side appears to be a stylised solar design. Neil Wilkin, the museum’s Bronze Age curator, said: ‘To me it is the most important object from this period, the first age of metal, that has come up in about 100 years.’ The pendant will be shown at the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery from November, before being moved to the British Museum for display in 2021.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.