The British Museum

The British Museum is a traditional museum with artifacts from around the world.

The Africa part of the museum was almost exclusively art and reproductions from the 19th and 20th century and was very small, pretty disappointing.

I did the Rick Steve's audio guide that included Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks plus took some photos from the Asian and Indian Exhibit. The Museum is huge so probably got through about half of it before I got overload and had to leave.

Main entrance to the British Museum, I came in the back way which was much less crowded.

The Great Court of the British Museum, Glass domed center of the museum

The Rosetta Stone, the stone that allowed the Egyption hyroglyphs to be translated. It has the same document written in Hyroglyphs, old egyptian , and cuniform(I think).

King Ramesses II

Ram god Amon protecting a pharoah

I think this was the mummy of Nefrittiti

Cat mummy

Gebelein Man "Ginger" 1000 years before the pyramids

Jars for the guts of the mummies

Stone box that the wood sarcophagus containing the egyptian mummies were placed into

Assyrian human headed winged gateway guardian

Assyrian carvings

Nereid Monument from Xanthos

Part of the Frieze of the Parthenon that British Diplomats "preserved"

Part of the Asian and Indain Exhibit

I think these were form South East Asia somewhere