Today's was a visit to the British Museum, always interesting, and you usually manage to see something you never noticed before. Today, there was a whole room on money I can't remember ever being in before, though I'm sure it was there...
We did visit the Egyptian things, of course, and I particularly liked all the little servant statues - especially these blue faience ones. These range from about 4 inches high to about 7 or 8 and the detail is amazing. Little statues were sent along with the dead as insurance against having to do agricultural labour (among other things) in the afterlife - by making sure you had enough servants to do it for you. I can't remember if that was the precise purpose of these particular ones or not...
Olivia with some seated Sekhmet goddesses.
Lots more photos over on flickr - mostly of treasures rather than the kids, in this instance.
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