Brown Girl in London

British Museum

Today HD and I went on our first official sightseeing trip to the British Museum, located down by Russel Square tube station. It was totally cool and free! I haven't read yet what HD put on her blog but it's probably something rude. :)

Anyway I enjoyed myself, but it's a place I'm definitely going to have to go back too. It's too large to see everything in one visit. This first pic is from the outside - it's much larger than that, that's just the main entrance.

At museums I gravitate towards the ancient areas - Greek, Roman, Egyptian - and the British Museum didn't disappoint. I saw various statues of Venus, lots of sarcophogi (?? guses??), and ancient money. I like looking at the ancient money too! I think it's neat to see how it evolved over the years - HD doesn't exacly agree with that part. Here's a few pics of a replica of the Parthenon, and some statues.

The best thing I saw today at the museum was the Rosetta Stone. Once this stone was discovered it opened up the secret of the ancient languages like the Eqyptian hieroglyphs. There were tons of people in front of it, so I squeezed my way up and quickly shot this pic. I have to go back - next time I'll take a tour.

posted by RC @ 5:08 PM