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The British Museum.
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The Great Court, with The Reading Room in the centre (right in photo).
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Chris with a colossal basalt statue made around 1000AD from Easter Island.
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One of the special exhibits was the Agatha Christie and archaeology exhibit, with a sample displayed here in the Great Court.
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Jacqui making friends with an Egyptian sculpture.
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The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery.
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Upper half of a colossal seated statue of Ramesses II. Thebes, Egypt.
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One of the Egyptian stone carvings.
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One of these is Jacqui, the other two are Mummy coffins. Can you pick them?
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One of the reliefs from the Ancient Near East exhibit.
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The colossal human-headed winged lions which once guarded the entrance to the Assyrian royal palace at Nimrud (9th century BC).
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Lion-hunt reliefs from the palace of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.
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