The British Museum

Assyrian gates. This is older than old Things about Darius, the most spectacular Persian king The long and imposing Egyptian hall Continuation of the great Egyptian hall Egyptian pottery, 1000 years before the Greeks, and well done Lord Elgins hall, full of marble and well, you know the Acropolis stuff The Mausoleum at Halicarnassas, a true wonder of the world that got rather destroyed, so the English took some home Temple of Neried, Greek, and in entirety rebuilt here Friezes from the upper inner and outer area of the Parthenon. Seems Lord Elgin didn't trust the Greeks after they got it blown up The Parthenon Marbles, regardless your stance on who has them, this is pretty stunning Every time I come here I try to give props to by brother Amenhotep III. Previous pictures were by very bad photographers though Roman stuff, looks Greek, because... they copied it all, for real Ashrunasirpal II, king of Assyria, kicked some mighty ass More Roman, almost like they had owned the entire world at some point Emperors, important people, and some randos from Rome Gold was so ubiquitous in Rome that it was worn everywhere and by most levels of society True Roman building corners, from England of all places Stairs between levels just absolutely covered in Roman mosaics Asia room, facing West towards Chinese and Indian things Now facing west to China and Japan Shiva and Parvati, the lovers and conquerors 1500s Japanese still life painting. Incredible detail of reproducing nature Mayan, not Asian, but I had nowhere else to put it, they didn't have a lot of American stuff at all English, or maybe Roman. I forget, but filled with real jewels For the Kings private coin collection The great library, former home of the British Library and collections of astounding volumes An ancient gold coin horde buried by Brits back when well, I guess they were killed by invaders because they never came to get it The Lewis Chess set, from the 1100's, which shows the dark ages weren't entirely dark Medieval items, which are quite fancy for one what had been led to expect from that time A necklace showing royal privilege from the 1600's, amazingly the current ones look almost identical. Tradition people! Young aspirants can look at themselves as if they had reached the pinacle Various stuff from around the Roman world The only real surviving centurion shield in the world When you retired after 25 years, you were paid so much that you literally became instantly wealthy and could just retire. Many bought land and farms though Or you could be killed on the road to Cambridge from Londidium and buried ignominiously with your loved ones never knowing Well of course, a shop. They have many quality repros of the actual items for your office The famous gathering spot, Central Court. Wine is here plus bathrooms

Patrick Story - 2024-06-20