After we ate at Ping Pong, we made our way to the British Museum, located near by. We entered through the back, a bit less grand than the main entrance but it had a lion standing guard so who am I to complain?
I’ll easily admit that I’m not a big museum buff, and unlike the rest of my party, I had never been to this particular museum. It’s certainly a stately building, though. This is the main hall, with the gift shop in the middle.
Emm wanted to see the Byzantine exhibit, which was small enough to hold my ADHD-like attention span. The conversation with other group members helped too. I am terrible.
I was rather intrigued by the man sketching statues…
If you visit museums and galleries here, you will often see people with their sketch books and charcoals wandering around the buildings.
This is (the back of) the Rosetta Stone! As in the namesake of the computer program. Which reminds me… I need to keep brushing up on my French!
I don’t know if you know or even care, but the Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799. Discovery of
this stone made possible the deciphering of Egyptian texts..The inscriptions on the stone contains
a decree honouring Ptolemy V and dates from 196 B.C. The writing is in Egyptian hieroglyphic,
demotic and Greek and the Greek text became the key making decipherment of Egyptian possible.
There’s your history lesson for the day.
Of course I care!!! I think that I read that when I was checking out the stone… Stonehouse ;)
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