The British Museum

I've been a bit sick for a while now, and today was the first day in a while that I felt anything like my regular self. I did manage a long walk around Primrose Hill yesterday, but I came back feeling clammy and feverish. But after a good night's rest, I felt up for a visit to the British Museum since it seemed like a shame to spend such a beautiful day in our flat. And I just got a new digital SLR that I've been dying to try out. The space itself was absolutely stunning.







Probably the most famous item belonging to the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone. There certainly was a large crowd around the case, but we managed to get a pretty good glimpse of the three different languages inscribed upon it: hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic script, and ancient Greek.




But my far and away favorite was all the Egyptian artifacts and mummies:













My other favorite was the Mildenhall treasure because I had read about its discovery many many years ago when I was a child, and I never thought I'd actually ever see the treasure in person. If you're curious, Roald Dahl wrote an excellent story about the treasure.





And of course the museum had a million other beautiful things to be amazed by. Literally.





 

Oh, and thanks to my older brother for telling me how to link photos from Flickr to avoid the horrible compression that occurs when you upload to Blogger!