British Museum and
other points of interest
London, UK, November 4-9,
2003
EXHIBIT ON MONEY
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Cowrie Shells
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Various Kinds of Silver Money
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Other metal forms of money (other than coins)
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bazalt money
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OTHER EXHIBITS
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British Museum--indoor area
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Rosetta Stone
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Egyptian Temple Door with hieroglyphics
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These kinds were reading many hieroglyphics with impressive ease!
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The mummy of Cleopatra
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Another mummified human body
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Animal mummies
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RamsesII - great ruler of the 19th dynasty
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The Temple of Nereid
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Ginger--the preserved body of a Predynastic Egyptian
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The Lindow man--a human sacrifice, whose body was preserved through the ages in peat-bog
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The Themes
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The London Eye
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Queen Victoria's monument
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The Buckingham palace
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Big Ben
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Captain Cook
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In front of Salvador Dali's museum
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The National Gallery
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Nelson Column at Trafalgar Square
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