Today we visited the British Museum. Absolutely amazing a highlight of the
trip. Their collections of Egyptian, Assyrian
and Greek artefacts makes going to Egypt or to Greece redundant, it all seems
to be here. We didn’t know how long we
would stay but we stayed until closing time (5.20PM). We also had a lovely healthy lunch and not so
healthy afternoon tea with scones and double clotted cream (a bit like my
arteries) – it was lovely.
We saw the Rosetta Stone, the Standard of Ur, The Portland
Vase (apparently it’s important, I hadn’t heard of it before). They had a replica of the Rosetta Stone that
you could touch. And of course the Elgin
Marbles and anything else from the Parthenon that wasn’t nailed down. Of what is left of the friezes, 60% is in the
British Museum and 40% in the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. We gather that the Brits are NOT in hurry to
repatriate them back to Greece. It was hard work to try to see everything but it was worth it.
Parts of the extensive Egyptian and Assyrian collection including recreated city doors.
Helmet from the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Celtic find in Englsnd.
Jewelry and harp from Mesopotamia.
Special presentation of cartoons on Napoleon.
The Rosetta Stone that allowed Egyptian hieroglyphics to be translated and the Standard of Ur which is a box, go figure but an important one.
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