The British Museum in London is one of my favorite places in the world. It's beautifully laid out with too many exhibits to visit in a day. If I lived in London I'm sure I'd visit the museum once a month. Of course my favorite part as a little girl was listening to the audio tour of the Egyptian artifacts. This was where I first learned of Sekhmet, the blood thirsty daughter of Ra. Interestingly, although she was a warrior goddess who killed scores of humans in a bloody rampage, she was also known as the goddess of love and healing. The British Museum may have begun my fascination with Ancient Egyptian mythology.
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(bottom images: photos of standing and sitting goddess Sekhmet at British Museum, left by wikipedia user Asavaa (2005), right by user Stormnight (2006). wikipedia)
Oh, how great that you have an interest in Egyptian mythology, Danica: wonderful! This summer I worked on building a kind of free online reference/resource library for this class, and I found some good Egyptian books... you might want to take a sneak peek:
ReplyDeleteFreebookapalooza: Middle East ... there are 14 books there in the ancient Egypt section!
It sounds like you will enjoy the class: we can't exactly go on a field trip to the British Museum... but the Internet is a very useful second-best! :-)