Amulet Atlas

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Markets, workshops, shrines, dig sites and the museum rooms where the rest of it ended up.

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The Lovett charms at Wellcome Collection

1916 CE to now

An address rather than a room. Walk into 183 Euston Road today and there is no case of Edward Lovett's London charms to look at: the permanent show of Henry Wellcome's…

Gallery (4)

Mana Whenua, Te Papa

1998 CE to now

Te Papa's permanent Māori exhibition, on Level 4 of the Wellington waterfront building.

Room 1: Enlightenment, the British Museum

1753 CE to now

One long room off the Great Court, lined with tall wall presses and galleried in dark wood.

The amulet and charm cases, Pitt Rivers Museum

1884 CE to now

Eight glass-topped cases on the Court, the ground floor of the museum, with deep drawers under them.

The Egyptian galleries, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1870 CE to now

A chain of rooms along the museum's north side, running from the predynastic material through to Roman Egypt and ending at the Temple of Dendur in its glass hall.

Market (13)

Akodessawa fetish market

A supply market in the Akodessawa district of Lomé, Togo, for the materials used in Vodun practice. The stock is animal: monkey heads, skulls, dried birds, crocodiles…

El Mercado de las Brujas

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A run of stalls on Calle Linares in the El Rosario neighbourhood of La Paz, spilling into Jiménez, Santa Cruz and Illampu.

Insa-dong

1910 CE to now

A neighbourhood of Jongno District, Seoul, 12.7 hectares of galleries, antique shops, paper and brush shops and tea houses along Insadong-gil and the alleys off it.

Khan el-Khalili

1382 CE to now

Cairo's bazaar quarter, in the medieval city between al-Muizz Street, al-Muski Street and the mosque and shrine of al-Hussein.

Mercado de Brujas de Gamarra

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A row of esoteric stalls inside the Gamarra clothing district of La Victoria, Lima, along Avenida Aviación.

Mercado de Sonora

1957 CE to now

A municipal covered market in Colonia Merced Balbuena, southeast of Mexico City's historic centre: one long metal nave, narrow aisles, traders grouped by what they sell.

Merkato

1936 CE to now

An open-air market covering several square miles of the Addis Ketema district of Addis Ababa, and the name of the neighbourhood it fills. An estimated 13,000 people work…

Monastiraki

A flea-market neighbourhood in the old town of Athens, built round Monastiraki Square and running along Pandrossou and Adrianou streets.

Tha Phrachan amulet market

Bangkok's main amulet market, running in the lanes beside Thammasat University and the Chao Phraya river pier of the same name.

Thamel

1970 CE to now

A commercial neighbourhood of narrow alleys in Kathmandu, about 1.4 kilometres north of Durbar Square. Shops run wall to wall: trekking gear, handicrafts, woollens…

The Barkhor

600 CE to now

A ring of street about a kilometre round, circling the Jokhang temple in the old city of Lhasa. It is at once the city's commercial centre and a circuit walked as…

The Grand Bazaar

1455 CE to now

A roofed market of 61 streets and more than 4,000 shops on 30,700 square metres in the walled city of Istanbul, between the Beyazit and Nuruosmaniye mosques.

The Marrakesh souk

1070 CE to now

The market streets of the Marrakesh medina, running north from the square called Jemaa el-Fnaa into the old city.

Shrine (3)

Fushimi Inari-taisha

711 CE to now

The head shrine of Inari, at the foot of a 233-metre mountain in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.

Quiapo Church

1588 CE to now

A Catholic basilica in the Quiapo district of Manila, housing the Jesús Nazareno, a dark statue of Christ carrying the cross.

Sensō-ji

628 CE to now

Tokyo's oldest-established Buddhist temple, in Asakusa, dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion.

Workshop (1)

Via San Gregorio Armeno

300 BCE to now

A narrow street in the old centre of Naples, lined with workshops that make figures for the presepe, the Neapolitan nativity scene.

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