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A new exhibition at the British Museum tells the story of the Mediterranean's largest island that once was a cultural centre of the ancient and medieval world. Dan Damon takes a tour accompanied by curators Dirk Booms and Peter Higgs

(Photo: A double page map of Sicily from Al-Idrisi's Treatise, Unknown, c. 1300-1500 AD Credit: The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)