A Woman's Reflection on Travel: The British Museum, August 15, 2015

The British Museum, August 15, 2015

So, I took a train from The Lake District back to London and my train back to Paris doesn't leave for several hours so, where is my favorite place to visit in London? The British Museum!! I think I took at least 150 pictures there. I love it! I think I can share a maximum of about 25 before my system says it is on overload so I will try to give you a pretty good overview of my favorite areas.

These were in the lobby. Some kind of

modern art. Interesting.

I always like the Egyptian mummies. So, here are some of those. Look at the detail of inside these caskets.

Also, the ornate buriel wrappings.

These are actually vials of some sort with lids on them

in the shape of shoes.

I like this sculpture of a Roman man with whites in his eyes.

This skull was used to make a reconstruction of

what this man might have looked like.

I also like the ancient Mesopotamia areas

so here they are also.

Look at these pointed helmets they wore then. They found that being pointed it deflected arrows and

other objects thrown their way.

On this visit to the museum, I focused somewhat on ancient to medieval England, so here is some of that. I photographed some of the Crusades items.

Doesn't this dude look like he is wearing sun glasses? Cool!

This is a cover for incense.

The new thing that I saw today for the first time was the exhibit on the discoveries of ancient Ur.

I heard several years ago about them digging up something like 26,000 clay tablets but the relics that they found, I suppose along with that dig, I didn't know about. I guess they found a royal burial ground. Here is a photo of that.