The British
Museum London
April 28, 2010
Touring the Ancient Egypt, Greece & Rome Galleries
and the Sir Harry & Lady Djanogly Gallery of Clocks & Watches at
the British Museum.
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Wednesday - day 5 (continued)
Leaving Harrods, we took the Tube to Holburn Underground
Station. On our walk over to the British Museum, we stopped in Bloomsbury
Square Gardens and enjoyed the strawberry flan from Harrods.
I had toured the British Museum during my first visit
to London in 2002, but Linda had never been there before. With over seven
million objects in the museum, it is one of the largest collections of
antiquities in the world. We couldn't begin to see all of the British Museum
in one visit, but we did enjoy seeing monuments, sculptures and ancient
inscriptions such as the Rosetta Stone and Elgin Marbles, as well as the
new Sir Harry & Lady Djanogly Gallery of Clocks & Watches.
We also made a couple of serious rounds of gift shopping
in the British Museum gift shops.
The Rosetta Stone, created in 196 BC, contains the same decree from
from Ptolemy V in three languages
and resulted in the first deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphic script
Ancient Egypt display
The Nereid Monument, built around 390 BC, is the largest and finest
of the Lykian Tombs found at Xanthos, southwest of Turkey
The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection
of classical Greek marble sculptures that originally were part of the
Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens in Greece
Mechanical clocks from the 16th and 17th Centuries
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