The British Museum: Contains almost everything you would ever Wish to see

We spent about an hour and a half in this beautiful place. It was huge. Remember that the British Empire was vast and they have accumulated lots of things over the years.

When we came they had a special exhibit on Leonardo DaVinci's work. This is the design for a hang glider fleshed out by DaVinci. Below is the copy of the design for the first tank.

Inside the entrance was all sorts of avenues to check out. In the middle contained a enormous library for people to do research.

This is the Rosetta stone. You may have heard about it. It contained three languages on the same stone and was a breakthrough for archeologists to understand different languages. It was found in the late 1700's.There is a huge amount of material from Greece. Much of the Parthenon was taken (or perserved depending on how you look at it) from Greece and it is beautiful. Their statues were so ornate. When I took the pictures of the statues below, art students were sketching them.

Egyptian artifacts contained a large part of the museum. They ranged from statues to huge collumns, to mummies. It was like being there.

This is the Code of Hammurabiu. It dates back to 1800 BC and is one of the first law codes known in the ancient world. Moses is beleived to have lived around 2000 BC.
This little piece of rock (5 x 5 inches) contains the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of the earliest known pieces of literature (2100 BC at least) and describes their story of how we as humans got here. It is pretty different from the story of creation in the Bible. Most people in seminary have studied this story and it is amazing that we were able to see it. If you would like to learn more about it, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

This ws a statue of Augustus. Only his head was preserved. This would have been the guy whom was ruler when Jesus was born.

This sculptures is of Caesar, King of the Roman Empire, and it is dated from AD 14-20. It was later mutilated and you can see Christians engraved a cross on his forehead. Very powerful symbol of the power of Christianity that has lasted over 2000 years while no one much remembers his name. Overall, you could spend days here but I showed you some of the highlights of the museum.