The British Museum

Since Renic, Crystal, and Jay didn't make it onto the plane (flying standby) on Friday night and they weren't going to try again until Sunday night we knew we had a couple of days to go sightseeing on our own. On Saturday we had gone to Hampton Court palace so on Sunday we decided to go to the British Museum. We had lunch first at a restaurant called Scoff and Banter, part of a Radisson Blu hotel, and it was very, very good. Fortified with an excellent meal we set off for 4 1/2 hours of overwhelming ancient art and artifacts.

 The Rosetta Stone!

 Close up of Rosetta Stone.

 Giant head of Ramses II. If you stood on the bottom of his beard your head would come up to his brow.

 Walk like an Egyptian.

 Female headed sphynx.

 Mosaics on the walls of the stairs. Turkish, Moroccan, others.

 The mummy room!

 Mummy of a bull calf.

 Gebelein Man, a natural mummy of the predynastic period, his body was in direct contact with the hot drys sand and preserved it naturally.

 A mummified kitten and two cats.

 For scale.

 Giant head of some ancient ruler.

 Don giving a fist bump to the fist of the giant ancient ruler's hand. All that's left of the statue, the head and the arm with fist.

 Lot's more to see thataway, not even close to being done.

Really big, they had to be cut into two pieces to be transported.

The Elgin Marbles.

Lots of centaur and men fighting action going on.

Easter Island head.

Mayan or Aztec (can't remember which) pottery in the North American exhibit.

Don's favorite.

Ceremonial jade ax head. Some of the best jade artifacts we've seen of this type.

Many of you might recognize this guy from a t-shirt that Don likes to wear.

Now we're in the Asian part of the exhibit and I'm just exhausted.

Ass-headed demons.