Trip to the British Museum - Ancient Egypt and Assyria

Today I went on an excursion with the summer school to the British Museum down in London. It wasn't a guided tour; we were in charge of ourselves, and didn't even have to stay in the museum if we wanted to go elsewhere in London. I wanted to stay at the museum, and did so all day. The following photos will demonstrate why, and they are a very small sample from over two hundred that I took today!

The imposing outside of the museum.

Giant totem poles in The Court's cafeteria in the main area of the museum

 The Rosetta stone - the ORIGINAL Rosetta stone!

A large Easter Island statue

An artwork depicting a life in pills - all the medicine taken by two people, a man and a woman, sewn into a nylon mesh as a piece of art

A king and queen worshipping

One of the Rameses

A statue of an eagle or falcon

And imposing column

A sphinx, one of two that guard one of the doorways out of the exhibition - with the head of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of an eagle

One of the many rooms lined with amazing hieroglyphics and scenes carved into stone that have been taken from pyramids and temples and transported to the museum

A goddess with a three-piece wig headdress

One of two griffins that guard a doorway into the ancient Assyrian exhibition

A carving of a husband and wife

The massive fist of an even more massive stone carving, transported by the French to the museum

Part of the great Sphinx's beard

Detail of a carving

Reconstructed gates that were in the palace of a conquering Syrian king

In the Assyrian exhibition: Lion hunts

More lion hunts...

A horse from the lion hunt
Next blog: Ancient Greece and Rome!