British Museum Highlights

The British Museum where we spent almost all day today. 

We spent time in the Celtic, Roman, and Medieval English displays; in Ancient and Roman-era Egypt; in a variety of displays about African art; in several rooms of Japanese art from 13,000 years ago until the present; and in ancient Greece and Assyria. We looked at a display of shadow puppets from southeast Asia. Maybe something else, too. It was wonderful! I'll be coming back to my many photos for additional posts about quite a few topics that these art works made me think about.

The famous medieval chessmen from various hordes.

Aizen-Myō-ō: "Passionate King of Light.
Japan, 1300-1400s.

Figure on a mummy case, maybe the Jackal god Anubis.
If I'm not mistaken, this god is in Neil Gaiman's American Gods!

Egyptian-influenced Cretan pendant showing a nature god wearing a Minoan kilt, standing on lotuses. Cycladic era. 

Various African textiles.

Statues from the Parthenon in Athens -- the Elgin Marbles,
probably the most famous part of the collections of the enormous museum.