We went to the British Museum which was free like many other museums in London. It was impressive that they had the Rosetta stone right at the entrance. Another educational moment for the kids to actually see one of the most important archaeological finds that allowed the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
They also had an impressive number of Egyptian artifacts and mummies.
I was impressed with this fragment of the Sphinxes beard. I had been to see the Sphinx and the pyramids last September.
We had been in Greece to the Parthenon a couple of months ago and got to hear about the disagreement between the British and the Greeks over the Elgin Marbles. Lord Elgin had stripped the Parthenon of many of it's carvings and brought them to England. This picture is of the statues that were under one side of the Parthenons roof.
We took a river boat cruise up the Thames river and got to see the reconstructed Shakespeare Theatre
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