British Museum and other points of interest

London, UK, November 4-9, 2003

EXHIBIT ON MONEY

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Cowrie Shells

Various Kinds of Silver Money

Other metal forms of money (other than coins)

bazalt money

 

 

 

 

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OTHER EXHIBITS

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British Museum--indoor area

Rosetta Stone

Egyptian Temple Door with hieroglyphics

third-graders reading hieroglyphics with impressive ease

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The mummy of Cleopatra

Another mummified human body

Animal mummies

 

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RamsesII - great ruler of the 19th dynasty

The Temple of Nereid

Ginger--the preserved body of a Predynastic Egyptian

The Lindow man--a human sacrifice, whose body was preserved through the ages in peat-bog

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The Themes

The London Eye

Queen Victoria's monument

Big Ben

 

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Captain Cook

Salvador Dali's museum in front of the London Eye

Dali statue

The National Gallery

Nelson Column at Trafalgar Square