The British Museum

When we were in London two weekends ago, my friend Miss Welter and I also visited the British Museum. This is one of the oldest museums in the world and has some of the most extensive collections of one of my favorite things...

This is Cleopatra's mummy!

Egyptian artifacts! This also works out great because my students here in England are studying Ancient Egypt, so I was able to take some neat pictures that they could look at to help their learning.

This is a statue of a scarab beetle. These were very important in Ancient Egyptian life.

Lots of statues of famous pharaohs, and lots of hieroglyphics.

This is the Rosetta Stone. It has three ancient languages inscribed on it and is how they translated a lot of really old documents. They were able to easily translate the Egyptian hieroglyphs and then figured out that all three "paragraphs" said the same thing, only in different languages. This was a major break through when it came to learning about ancient peoples.

Yeah, that's a mummified crocodile!

Now you might wonder why there are mummies and other Egyptian artifacts in a museum in England. Well, all of these artifacts were discovered by English archaeologists, so naturally, they brought them back to their own country to study them. Then they were put into the museum.

There aren't just Egyptian things here--there are exhibits from literally every continent! They had a very neat section about Native Americans. I thought it was interesting to learn about American things in another country.