We went to the British Museum expecting to see British history, but we saw the history of the world, which belongs to us all. This is a tiny sampling of what can be seen there.
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The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C. in 2 different languages. (Greek and Egyptian).
It was written using 3 script types: hieroglyphic, demotic & Greek. The text was written to honor the Egyptian Pharaoh. It is named after the small town where it was discovered in 1799. Does the shiny bald head reflected in the stone seem familiar? |
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| Colossal Statue of King Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC) |
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| Modern Day Ramesses I and II |
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| Decorative ceiling inside the museum |
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One of a pair of sculptures found in Assyria. Mythological figures were often placed at the entrance to palaces in ancient Mesopotamia for protection against demonic forces. This particular sculpture is a winged human-headed bull.
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The marble head of the horse of Selene (goddess of the moon), carved around 438-432 B.C.
This sculpture is from the east pediment or gable of the Parthenon in Athens. |
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| Mummy, is that you? |
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| Sister Jones admiring some of the many beautiful Egyptian sarcophagi |
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Sister Jolley and Henutmehyt, an Egyptian Priestess. Her name was popular at the time she lived. (1295-1186 BC)
The richness of her burial says she was an extremely wealthy and important woman, like S. Jolley? :-) |
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| Elder and Sister Jones: Good thing we wore our coats! It's like a refrigerator in here! |
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| Reconstructed artifact known as the Standard of Ur which was discovered in a royal tomb in Ur (near Bahgdad) in the 1920s. Amazing restoration work by the excavators who filled the hollows in the ground with wax to record the shape of the objects that had once filled them. They carefully uncovered small sections & covered them with wax, enabling the mosaics to be lifted while maintaining the original designs. This reconstruction is a best guess at the original appearance. |
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| Confucius say: Wise guys imitating ancient monkey ...bad karma!:-) |
