Trip Highlights - The British Museum

The British Museum is a massive place - my feet get tired just thinking about it - and they have a sampling of histories of civilizations from all over the world. I have to say that the best bit of the British Museum was actually on temporary loan (and will be till April 2008). The TerraCotta Warriors! (sorry no pics - not allowed..) They were very cool - I particularly liked the horses :) It was a very complete exhibit and the scale of the complex is massive - apparently the guy that commissioned it was a teenager when he started it - granted a rather powerful teenager - and he had 700,000 people working on it for years! After seeing all the work of course I was impressed, however, the most impressive thing to me after seeing the entire exhibit was the fact that all the warriors that now stand at the palace - for lack of a better word - were destroyed by looters hundreds of years ago. The place was completed and filled hundreds of clay people fashioned and painted, then the place was looted, sacked and then to add insult to injury the roof collapsed and the entire place filled wth dirt to be forgotten for many many years. It must have been quite a job to put them back together again - in fact there are vast areas of the complex that have never been excavated!