Saturday, July 28, 2012

British Museum

As the rest of the group recouped from a long week of events, I decided to venture off with one other student to the British Museum. As the oldest museum in London, walking around you could take in various centuries of different cultures and countries!
Outside of the Museum!

The British Museum Seal

The inside of the museum's natural lighted center comlex

The Rosetta Stone: One passage written in three different  that finally helped archaeologists decipher hieroglyphics!  

Part of the mummy exhibit from Egypt

The gold medals for both the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

Shout-out to South Sudan, the newest country and its money already showcased in the museum.

Yes, that's an actual mummy...

Yes, that's an actual skeleton preserved since the Egyptian times........

An Orrery from the 1800s by Copernicus. Used to figure out that the sun was in the center of the Solar System

Me and Jade Budda

Me and a stone from Easter Island.

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