It didn't look good when we arrived at the British Museum. The dense line stretched all around the block. But it was mostly a security delay and soon enough we were enjoying the extraordinary plunder of the British Empire, including this exhausted horse from Athens.
The sculptures in the Parthenon Room decorated a frieze atop the world's most famous Greek temple from 432 BC until Lord Elgin carted them away to London beginning in 1800 for safekeeping.
It certainly is a gorgeous sunlit space protected from the weather. Look at the floor!
We toured only the highlights. An Egyptian king looked familiar. Too bad you had to pay to see the Rosetta Stone which wasn't the case in 2016.
People last played with the Lewis Chessmen, carved from walrus ivory, sometime during the Middle Ages. They were discovered in the Outer Hebrides (also known as the Western Isles) in 1831. We got only as far as the Inner Hebrides on our Scotland trip earlier this year.
I wasn't able to identify this mosaic. It decorated a stairwell.
Someone "found" this 1783 sculpture of Minerva by Carlo Albacini on a Roman hill.
Thom posed outside the museum in his new Belstaff outfit.
