I'll be spending the next two days at the Louvre and will endeavor to take pictures to share. I'll have to dig up my British Museum pictures from a prior trip as well - coins are great but the Rosetta Stone is unbeatable in my eyes.
Please do. I have not been to either in half a lifetime. I remember the Louvre had the Venus de Milo casually placed in a stairwell, as if it was just another piece of statuary. Everywhere you turned, there was something remarkable. As far as the Brit Museum. The Rosetta stone is an object that inspires the imagination. The Elgin marbles are a must see. I would love to get back there someday, if only to view Sutton Hoo. Enjoy Le Louvre, I'm envious.
Absolutely awesome!!!! I thoroughly enjoyed every photo @4to2centBC .......I feel just like Bing (and just visited the Met). Thanks so much for posting!!!!
4to2centBC, thanks for posting the photos. If any of you ever get to Cambridge, England, there is a relatively unknown large gallery there, not in the Fitzwilliam Museum, with casts of just above every ancient statue you have ever heard of. http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/ It is not far from downtown, and great fun to visit.
I loved both the Louvre and the British Museum, spent HOURS in the AEgyptian and Ancient sections... pics are old fashioned photo paper from years ago... I vividly remember the Rosetta stone, and many other exhibits... the fascination of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre pales against the Ancient exhibits!
I've been to the Met twenty years or so ago, and keep in memory how huge it was, and so many things to see that you would as a bee in a flower field. Same at the BM or Louvre though ! Thanks for sharing those wondeful pics @4to2centBC ! Q
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