Treasure Hunt America

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james. (Baidu search network has the fastest and most stable update)|In every two people who watch romance, there is an account that has registered °le ° small ° said ° network. Patton is dead, but the ambassador behind him is still there, the British Museum.

This museum is located in Great Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England. Founded in 1753, it is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world. Although it is known as one, in many people's minds, it is actually not one. It is the oldest and largest museum in the world.

The reputation of this museum is so great that on earth, as long as people who are highly educated and interested in antiques and art have never heard of it.

Standing in front of the gate of this museum, just by looking at the magnificent hallway, Jin Muchen could feel the majestic momentum coming towards him.

Many people may stand at the entrance of this museum, and they will be stunned by the stone carvings and exhibits at the entrance of the museum, but Jin Muchen stood at the entrance of this museum, but he sneered in his heart. If he was not afraid of being caught by the police, he really I really want to spit at the door of this museum.

Maybe in the eyes of other people, there are many antiques and works of art here, but in the eyes of Jin Muchen, this is a den of thieves. The past, and where the spoils of his robbery career were.

There are more than 13 million exhibits in this museum. The origin of these exhibits can be said to cover all parts of the world, and most of these exhibits are almost all the British who drove strong boats and sharp guns to rob back.

The origins of many exhibits are not glorious, and even now, many countries are arguing with the British government for the items in this exhibition hall.

The British Museum has many names, and the British call it the British Museum. Some people also call him the Royal British Museum, because after the establishment of the museum, the British royal family donated a lot of things to the museum.

Some people also call him the British History Museum, because he not only recorded the history of Britain. There are even many antiques in it, which also record the development history of many other countries in the world.

This shows the richness and diversity of the collections in this museum. Of course, more than half of the exhibits were obtained through illegal means back then. Even by blood and savage looting.

The collection of this museum originally originated from more than 80,000 cultural relics and specimens collected by the famous collector Sir Hans Sloan, the physician of King George II of England.

In 1823, King George IX of England donated a large amount of his father's collection of books. In the more than 200 years since its opening, in addition to collecting a large number of British cultural relics, he also relied on the force of the British to rob Egypt, A huge amount of cultural relics from ancient countries such as Babylon, Greece, Rome, India, and China.

The museum is currently divided into 10 branches: Ancient Near East, Coins and Commemorative Coins, Egypt, Ethnography, Greece and Rome, Japan, Oriental, Prehistoric and European, Prints and Drawings, and Western Asia .

Among them, the collections of the Egypt Pavilion, the Greco-Roman Pavilion and the Oriental Pavilion are the most eye-catching. The Egypt Pavilion is the largest exhibition hall with more than 70,000 ancient Egyptian cultural relics, which is the most prestigious collection in the British Museum. Represents the high civilization of ancient Egypt.

This of course has a lot to do with the robbery of tombs in Egypt in the name of archaeology after the British split the Ottoman Empire and controlled Egypt and the Suez Canal.

But the most eye-catching of all the collections is the Oriental Pavilion, which has more than 100,000 cultural relics from China, Japan, India and other Southeast Asian countries.

Among them, the Chinese showroom occupies several halls, with exhibits ranging from bronze wares from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, to porcelain from the Tang Dynasty, and gold and jade products from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Countless, according to statistics, there are more than 20,000 rare treasures from China alone, most of which are priceless treasures.

And this is still incomplete statistics, because of the relationship between museum exhibition space. At present, the museum can only display 6.3 million cultural relics, and the remaining millions of cultural relics can only wait for time and take turns to display.

In this way, exactly how many antique cultural relics from China are stored in this museum. So far no one has been able to clarify.

But one thing is certain, the Chinese cultural relics hidden in this museum are almost all the essence of Chinese antiques. If you take out any one, it can be regarded as a national treasure in China.

Even many treasures have disappeared in China, but they can be found here. This cannot but be said to be a regret and shame as a Chinese.

Jin Muchen stood at the gate of the museum, tightening his collar, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth. Don't be complacent, today, my young master, is here to collect debts.

If you take mine, you must return it to me. Today, let you pay some interest first!

The museum now covers an area of ​​5.4 hectares. It is a rectangular, milky-white building. The main entrance is supported by 8 round columns and lifts a long and narrow triangular top. There are many beautiful stone sculptures in the triangle. It looks majestic, magnificent and solemn. The flow of people slowly walked to the gate of the museum.

The security check at the door is very strict. The entrance is the security check department. You have to go through an X-ray, and you have to go through the X-ray of your belongings. Behind the security gate are security guards with big arms and waists.

After passing the security check, there will be a lady tour guide standing at the door constantly telling you that there are areas in the museum that are allowed to take pictures, and those areas are not allowed to take pictures.

Fortunately, the British are still a little bit cheeky. There is no charge for visiting this museum, but there is a donation box at the door. Where can you donate one to three pounds as the funds for the maintenance of these historical relics by the British Museum in the future, see From time to time, there are some Chinese speaking Mandarin who walk to the donation box and throw money into it. Jin Muchen really wants to laugh at them.

All the collections here, except for the British, most of the other collections were originally robbed from other countries, and now people from other countries come to watch, and they still want to thank you for your care for these antiques, I rely on, really. . . How many people with the feelings of the Virgin Mary can donate to you?

Jin Muchen shook his head, not wanting to think any more, and walked into the museum.

Entering from the main entrance, the first thing that catches your eye is a magnificent glass-steel-roofed circular building. This is the reception hall opened to the public in the second half of 2000, when the Queen came to cut the ribbon in person.

Going around the hall and entering the exhibition hall, what you see is a two-story building, which is similar to the floor of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Most of the exhibition halls here are also on the first and second floors, and some are on the basement floor, so after all, this should be a three-story exhibition hall.

It has a total of more than 90 exhibition halls, divided into Greece and Rome, prehistoric and Roman Britain, West Asia, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and modern Europe and the United States, Egypt, the East, the British Library, ethnology and other exhibition halls, in addition to coins and There are two exhibition halls for medals, prints and drawings.

At present, there are as many as 6.5 million exhibits on display, and other collections need to be rotated regularly.

Entering the pavilion and looking to the left, it is the Egyptian pavilion that attracts the audience the most. At the entrance stands two black granite statues of the ancient Egyptian king Amenophis III, nearly 3 meters high.

On the left behind the statue is a stele engraved with 2 languages ​​and 3 styles. This is the famous Rosetta Stone and one of the treasures of the British Museum.

However, Jin Muchen didn't plan to enter this museum, because he knew before coming here that the most famous collections in this Egyptian pavilion are said to be giant stone sculptures and mummies.

Jin Muchen didn't do much research on Egyptian stone carvings, but the mummy made his scalp tingle just thinking about it. He didn't like tomb robbing, so he didn't have much interest in visiting the big zongzi.

It is said that the number of Egyptian mummies collected in this museum is known as the number one in the world, even exceeding the number of mummies in all museums in Egypt.

These british guys have really lacked the virtue of eight lifetimes. You said that you stole all the tombs of the Egyptian ancestors, and you also pulled the corpses of their ancestors to display in the museum. I really don’t know this. It should be regarded as a kind of respect for antiques and cultural relics, or a kind of blasphemy.

Going around the Egyptian Pavilion, you will enter the West Asia Pavilion. Among these West Asia pavilions, the Assyrian exhibition hall can attract the attention of Jin Muchen, mainly because Andy in Los Angeles once gave Jesse an Assyrian one. Stone carvings~www.wuxiaspot.com~ That's why he is very interested in the history of this country, and the stone reliefs in this museum are particularly wonderful, no less than the one that Andy and the others gave to Jesse.

At the entrance of the exhibition hall, there are two stone sculptures of human-faced bulls squatting on both sides. They are tall and majestic. Each bull has 5 legs. It seems to be standing still when viewed from the front, but it seems to be walking when viewed from the side. It's beautiful, think about how human beings thousands of years ago actually made such imaginative stone sculptures. Even if many modern people see this kind of skill and imagination, they can only feel ashamed. Shocked.

Jin Muchen lingered in front of this exhibition hall for a long time, and then reluctantly left here and walked to the next exhibition hall.

Further inside, there is an I-shaped hall. There is only one exhibit in the entire hall, that is, the remnants of the famous Parthenon Temple, a pile of exquisite marble statues.

These treasures are the few proofs that the ancient Greek civilization has survived. Later, they were also obtained here by the British with very disgraceful means. Now they are also one of the treasures of the British Museum.

At the same time, the sculptures left in these temples are also treasures that Greece has been arguing with and entangled with Britain so far. It is one of the most controversial collections in the British Museum! (To be continued.)