The British Museum is the most famous museum in the UK. Established in 1753. It contains about 7 million artefacts from different eras, cultures and continents. Some objects are able to expand the British Empire. The greatest controversy is caused by the so-called Elgin marbles - bas-reliefs of conquering the Athenian Parthenon, which is claimed by the Greek government.
Another object is the famous stone from Rosetta, which they brought to London after the defeat of Napoleon in Egypt, which served to decipher the hieroglyphs. Cairo is asking for your answer. A few more controversial artifacts are so-called Cyrus' cylinder - declaration of the Persian king written in cuneiform after the conquest of Babylonia. Iran authorities have suspended cooperation with the British Museum, demanding the return of the facility.
In 2001, in the field of technology, glass was about a former reading room (British Library), whose users in the past are, among others, Lenin, Marx, George Bernard Shaw and others. They are located near the St Pancras station. The total exhibition space of the British Museum is 75,000 sq m. For the audience used and the culture of ancient Egypt.
Among the most valuable files are. in.: a gigantic statue of Ramses II, 140 ancient Egyptian mummies, a collection of princes and silver, Greek monuments and amphorae, priceless relics of Mesopotamia, bronze sculptures of the united kingdom of Benin, the famous chess of the eleventh century made of walrus tusks discovered on the Scottish island of Lewis, etc.
