British Museum

Yesterday Jared and I went to the British Museum before class. It was pretty cool, though we barely scratched the surface as far as the exhibits there and how much you can see. It's free admission, but it would take several days at several hours a day in order to just look at everything, let alone learn about it. We ended up going to the Egyptian and then Greek parts of the museum, then went on a short tour about the Greek works that were there. It was fun watching how Greek art had developed over the years and in what ways they used the art.

Aphrodite (aka Venus via the Romans) covering herself because she was discovered in the woods.

Cool Greek artwork, toward its later development, on a pot used for wine.

Cool Greek statues (though originally Greek statues were painted).

The Rosetta Stone (part of the law written in three languages on one stone- very useful when trying to understand hyroglyphics)

And thus was our rather short visit to the museum. It was more because we had to visit it as part of a paper than because we actually wanted to go. But it was fun and worth it.