British Museum

British Museum.

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The Great Court was designed by Norman Foster as the Museum's Millennium Project. An astonishing glass roof covers the whole space between the round Reading Room and Smirke's 19th-century building. Read more about tje Great Court: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/greatcourt/intro.html

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A clay-vest which is used when one is mourning.

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The Basalt sculpture known as Hoa Hakananai'a from Easter Island in the South Pacific. Representing an ancestral figure, it was probably first dispalyed out of doors on a ceremonial platform.

Source: John Reeve's The British Museum Visitor's Guide.
The guide should be available from http://www.britishmuseum.co.uk

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A skull-like sculture made from quartz.

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Greek sculpture.

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The Reading Room within the British Museum. It looked spectacular, trust me.

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Egyptian Mummy. This photo was taken by QH onher camera.
Click on this link to read on the process of mummification (Copyright of the British Museum).

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Taken for Crazy Cat:



I took this for Crazy Cat in hope to lend her new inspirations. But I fear it might irk her than please her. Anyway, this is the mummy of a cat. To the Egyptians, cats were sacred to the goddess Bastet.

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Money-making machines. If I had one of those, what would I do with the money? I hope I would choose to use it to benefit others, and then use some to go for further studies.

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Sculpture found in British Museum.