The British Museum

A virtual Tour The British Museum

The British Museum has a permanent collection of about 8 million objects - one of the largest in the world - and it spans over two million years of human history and culture. © 2023 Google Explore in Street View

Carved stone squares, known as metopes , once formed a decorative strip running around the top of the Parthenon and were made around 447-438 BC. They depict The Centauromachy , a mythical battle between the barbarian Centaurs and the civilized Lapiths. © 2023 Google Explore in Street View

The Rosetta Stone -196/-196

The Rosetta Stone -196/-196 British Museum The Rosetta stone is inscribed with a royal decree issued in 196BC by King Ptolemy V Epiphanes repeated in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Ancient Greek. It's discovery in 1799 held the key to translating Egyptian hieroglyphs, which few people at the time thought was possible. Take a closer look

Hoa Hakananai'a is a moai (statue) from Easter Island. The moai were probably carved to commemorate important ancestors and were made from around 1000 AD until the second half of the seventeenth century. © 2023 Google Explore in Street View

Helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo

Helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo British Museum The Sutton Hoo Helmet is one of the most important Anglo-Saxon finds of all time. Only four complete Ango-Saxon helmets are known to date, and this is the most elaborate. Made of iron, it is covered with tinned copper alloy panels showing a range of scenes. Take a closer look

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