British Museum

'Ello, dearies!

Guess where I went now: the British Museum. Egypt exhibit. Oh yeah!

The Egypt exhibit is always my favorite part of history museums, probably because my dad used to read me National Geographic Egypt books when I was little. So here I got to see some mummies, look at some mummy skulls, and use my anthropology skills to look at the dentition and post-mortem skull fractures. I was completely geeking out. I even determined the sex of the mummy skulls that didn't have it labelled on their info signs. Thank you, Professor Hawks!

Mummy crania

In the Egypt rooms, there were a ton of little British school kids in uniforms on their field trips, and they all had adorable accents and were telling their friends about canopic jars. I also ran into some German-speaking college students in the Japanese art room.

Shabti tomb statuettes

Before we all left, we went in the Greek sculpture room and the large Egyptian sculpture room. We got to see the Rosetta Stone, Lely's Venus, and even some sphinx-type heads that were absolutely enormous.

Lely's Venus (Aphrodite)

On the way out, while I was waiting for our group to collect in the food court area, I saw on the museum map that they have an Easter Island statue! Easter Island and Stonehenge are my two favorite mysterious monuments, so I'll have to go back to check that out.

In the food court area

In all, it was a very cool museum, and like most museums in London, it was free!