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April 11th, 2012, 12:52 PM
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#1 | | Historian
Joined: Nov 2010 From: Londinium Posts: 1,580 | Ancient Egypt at the British Museum
Been to the British Museum with the family today. Only got to see Egypt before my son got bored... but I did spend amost 2 hours there  Anyway, this is a short video of that day out.
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April 11th, 2012, 01:03 PM
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#2 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Central Macedonia Posts: 17,763 |
Nice.... I am puzzled though. You only photographed one item that dates back in 2400 BC. Everything else is from 1450 BC onwards... I am more interested in the third millenium BC, to be honest.
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April 11th, 2012, 01:07 PM
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#3 | | nonpareil
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Wessex Posts: 7,828 |
I like the boat.
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April 12th, 2012, 06:23 PM
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#4 | | Restitutor Canadensis
Joined: Nov 2010 From: The Great Indoors Posts: 2,530 |
Aww, you didn't get to see the Roman galleries?  There's a bust of your namesake there, next to a big statue of his dad  | | | |
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April 12th, 2012, 11:04 PM
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#5 | | Historian
Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,960 |
The Fitzwilliam in Cambridge also some stunning stuff, especially a superb,massive head of Ramses The Great in basalt.
(the Fitz is my favourite small museum)
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April 13th, 2012, 12:40 AM
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#6 | | Citizen
Joined: Sep 2011 From: Nottingham & Bristol Posts: 15 |
Who'd a thought an Ancient Egyptian would be called Roy?
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April 13th, 2012, 02:28 AM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: Nov 2010 From: Londinium Posts: 1,580 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ephialtes  Who'd a thought an Ancient Egyptian would be called Roy? | My wife pointed that out and my son said it must have been one of Dr Who's assistants lol
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April 13th, 2012, 03:15 AM
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#8 | | Backworldsman
Joined: Jun 2009 From: Glorious England Posts: 6,349 | Quote:
Originally Posted by pixi666 Aww, you didn't get to see the Roman galleries? There's a bust of your namesake there, next to a big statue of his dad | The bust of Caracalla is quite distinctive, isn't it? He's got a magnificent sneer to him!
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April 13th, 2012, 06:14 AM
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#9 | | Restitutor Canadensis
Joined: Nov 2010 From: The Great Indoors Posts: 2,530 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sargon of Akkad The bust of Caracalla is quite distinctive, isn't it? He's got a magnificent sneer to him! | It's fun going into a Roman gallery at a museum and trying to identify the busts of Emperors without looking at the museum caption. Caracalla with his sneer, Titus with his curly hair, Vespasian with the constipated look on his face, Trajan with his bowl cut, and Marcus Aurelius with the slightly spacey look in his eyes.
It's amazing how consistent different busts of the same emperor are, which leads me to think that most of them are quite accurate in depicting what the emperor actually looked like.
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April 13th, 2012, 08:07 AM
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#10 | | Historian
Joined: Nov 2010 From: Londinium Posts: 1,580 | Quote:
Originally Posted by pixi666 It's fun going into a Roman gallery at a museum and trying to identify the busts of Emperors without looking at the museum caption. Caracalla with his sneer, Titus with his curly hair, Vespasian with the constipated look on his face, Trajan with his bowl cut, and Marcus Aurelius with the slightly spacey look in his eyes.
It's amazing how consistent different busts of the same emperor are, which leads me to think that most of them are quite accurate in depicting what the emperor actually looked like. | lol I'm not the only one to do that. Phew!
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