Went to The British Museum today. I enjoyed it very much. The stand out difference between it and the previous museums I had been to was the overwhelming number of items that were about 2000 years old. We are talking ancient world history here.
One of the more impressive was the Rosetta Stone. It carries the same inscription in several different languages including ancient Egyption hieroglyphic script. This stone alone allowed us to decipher and read Egyption script by comparing the hieroglyphics with the languages we know. Very cool!
The museum also contained lots of ancient texts (besides the Rosetta Stone). I found them very fascinating and rather beautiful to look at. Many of those, including one which has a story very similar to Noah's are linked at bottom of this post.
The fella above was a nice brit who was pounded twice on the head and had his throat slit before being thrown into a bog. It was hard to photograph him cause the lighting was very low. You could clearly see his face, beard and hair. You could see his belly button. All pretty amazing considered he died almost 2000 years ago!
Almost as amazing as the different artifacts found through out the building, was the architecture of the building itself. A large and beautiful building that was both modern and ancient in design.
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