Marta Tortajada, 1st A
The British Museum in London is the UK’s largest museum and one of the most visited all over the world. It is located in the Bloomsbury area since its opening, in January of 1759. It has got more than seven million of objects from all the continents.
The Rosetta stone is one of its most important things. It is a part of an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele from Memphis inscribed with a text that provided the key to understand Egyptian hieroglyphs. It is written in three ancient alphabets. It has been in the British Museum since 1802.
The Egyptian mummies collection is the most popular part of the museum. This collection contains about 140 mummies, the largest collection outside Egypt. There are also some tombs and death masks from these mummies.
The Elgin Marbles, known also as the Parthenon Marbles because they were originally part from the Greek Parthenon, are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and architectonical members from ancient Greek art. They are from Athens.
The last of the most important things of this museum is the Mildenhall Treasure, which contains pieces that belong to the most valuable Roman art. This treasure, which is a Roman highly decorated silver tableware from the fourth century, was found in Britain.
Marta, much too much information about yourself. Only your first name and the first letter of your surname!! Anyway, good work
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