The British Museum

The British Museum was filled with so much history and things that I never thought I would live to see. I have included a picture of the Rosetta Stone for it's marvelous story and how it transcribed thousands of years of human history to us with the engraving on this stone. One of our classmates did a small presentation on this artifact before we went into the museum and he told us that they only had a replica i the British Museum because the original had turned black from the hundreds of years of allowing people to touch it in the museums. He told us that when the stone was found, it was green, like an emerald color, and that the replica we would see inside the museum was represented as this green color. When we came upon the stone in the museum we realized that they had re-installed the original and we were all mesmerized by it's presence. None of us were expecting the original Rosetta Stone to be in front of us, but there it was. Some of the other marvelous artifacts that awe struck me were the Egyptian tombs, statues, and Sphinx sculptures beautifully displayed around the museum. I spent the most of my time in that section. I had never been up close to old Egyptian artifacts, and as the weirdo I am, I used to watch a lot of documentaries about the strangeness of Egyptian artifacts, so to see some of them in person just blew my mind.