The British Museum is one of the three major museums in the world, there are more than 8 million collections, after a visit is like reading a world history, ancient Egypt area of the Rosetta stone and mummy collection is absolutely your British Museum must see the treasure of the town, at the same time can not miss the ancient Greece and Rome area of the vivid sculpture and stone tablets! Take a cultural tour of the world by walking into the British Museum, exploring thousand-year-old ruins!

📍 British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
🚇 Nearby tube stations: Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road, within a 10-minute walk.
⏲ : Weekdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fridays 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Please refer to the official website for details.
🎫 Tickets: google the british museum and you'll find the link. Reservations are free for the main museum (though tickets are not actually checked in, so you can get in without a reservation), and £20 for special rooms (such as the previous exhibition in the Late Qing Dynasty).

Friends often ask "what is the most valuable collection to punch, because when searching for" Treasures of the British Museum "on the Internet

You will find - why so many different versions of the leaderboard? The museum doesn't have an official Top10 list.

After trembling to explain thousands of people, dare to recommend a version. This list refers to the "14 items not to be missed" on the official website, the "one-hour tour route" and the "ten collections" of the official APP, and refers to the taste of the domestic list, giving up the exhibits that most compatriots are not very interested in, and finally obtaining the 15 "Docents Recommended version Must See List".

🌟 is a no-brainer in the top five:
1,Ancient Egypt - Rosetta Stone (Room 4 is directly at the door) the first treasure of the town museum
The Rosetta Stone is an important ancient stone found in Rashid, Egypt, in 1799 (Picture 1 is the original). It became the only key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics 🔑.

The Rosetta Stone bears the same text, written in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, cursive, and Greek. Since Greek was a language that people could already read, by comparing the contents of the three scripts, scholars were able to successfully interpret the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, thus opening the door to understanding the culture and history of ancient Egypt.

The importance of this stone tablet to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and understanding ancient civilization is hard to overstate. It is the most ostentatious artifact in the British Museum's collection, and is said to be the most important of the more than eight million objects in the British Museum.

2, Mesopotamia (Assyrian Empire)- Ramasu + lion hunt reliefs(Room 10a)

3. Ancient Greece - The Parthenon
The famous Parthenon Temple was built between 447 and 438 BC, "Parthenon" meaning "girl" or "unmarried virgin", she is located in the center of the Acropolis core complex, dedicated to the city's patron saint Athena. All the shocking marble statues in this hall, the exquisite and delicate statues, and the realistic treatment of the folds of clothes, let people feel the power of God.

4, Ancient Egypt - Statue of Ramses II (Room 4 - Rosetta Stone right - largest and most prominent in center)

In the sculpture exhibition hall, the most prominent is this handsome and bodybuilding young head tall. (chu) standing in front of you, this is Ramses II.
Ramses II was a pharaoh who lived around 1200 BC and ruled Egypt for 66 years, creating the most glorious civilization on the Nile. The Battle of Cadiz, recorded in Egyptian history, is one of the series of battles between the 19th Dynasty of Egypt and the Hittite Empire for the dominance of the Syrian region, Ramses II led 2,000 chariots and nearly 16,000 infantry, and the Hittite king fought for the main base and military fortress of the Hittite in Syria - Cadiz. The Battle of Cadiz is one of the earliest battles recorded in ancient military history, and the Hittite Peace Treaty concluded after the war is the earliest peace treaty preserved in history.
Look at the round hole in the right arm of this bust that was allegedly made by the French during the Napoleonic era, who tried to steal it, but failed.

5, Mesopotamia (Ur Dynasty)- Flag of Ur
The flag of Ur, now in the British Museum in London, was made in 2600 BC by the Sumerians of the Mesopriver region. It is a Mosaic of shells, red limestone and lapis lazuli on all four sides, with two long sides representing scenes of war and peace.

Previously, archaeologists believed that it may have been mounted on a long pole and used in war, so it was named "Ur Banner". But modern researchers believe that this may not be a military flag, but some kind of musical instrument's sound box, because the box is empty in the middle, has the effect of amplification. Whatever the purpose, there is no doubting its beauty.

🌟 The next five most common (in no particular order) are:
6, Chile - Easter Island Stone Statues (Room 24)
7, Mexico - Mosaic two-headed Snake (Room 27)
8, China - David Vase (Yuan to Zheng 11 years blue and white dragon pattern elephant ear vase)

Yuan blue and white dating standard. Chinese Ceramics in the British Museum, there are almost 1700 pieces of the world's most exquisite Chinese ceramics exhibits, made from the 3rd century to the 20th century, Figure 1 and Figure 2 are the most important blue and white dragon vase, also known as the Great Vases, this pair of vases is the most important blue and white porcelain exhibits in existence, may be the world's most prestigious porcelain vases, cash found the most complete preservation of the Yuan blue and white. It is said that the value is beyond estimate, priceless. After seeing the Chinese pottery hall, I feel that the best Chinese porcelain has been searched by the UK, the only thing is that they are very well preserved, which is also a blessing in misfortune!

9, United Kingdom - Sutton Lake Boat Burial (Room 41)
The most important British archaeological discovery of the 20th century
10, United Kingdom - Lewis's Chess Pieces (Room 40)
The original Wizard chess in Harry Potter

🌟 Other options also worth a look:

11, China - Tang Copy of the Admonitions of Women (limited to 6 weeks per year)

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The domestic collection is only the Song copy farther away from the Eastern Jin and has no color

12, China - Tang Sancai is buried with General Liu Tingxun (Room 33)
This set of Tang Tri-glazed pottery is a set of funerary objects of Liu Yanxun, an old general of the Tang Dynasty, in 728 AD. It is now in the British Museum. This group of three-color Tang terra-cotta figures of gods, gods, civil and military officials, horses and camels. Bright colors, vivid gestures, lifelike.

13, Turkey - Temple of the Sea Nymphs/Monument to Nereid (Room 17)
14, Egypt - The tomb of the priestess Lady Honegiti or the mummified Song Girl (Room 63)
15, Egypt - Mummies of the Ginger People (Room 64)

The mummies seen in the photos are natural mummies. It is 5,500 years old and is now on display in the British Museum. Due to the arid climate of Egypt, he was a natural mummy buried in the ground. His name is Gebelein Man (Gingerbread Man) and he is 163 cm tall. Prehistoric Egypt, around 3500 BC.
Many people thought the mummy was a pharaoh who lived at the time of the prophet Moses, but it wasn't. The Pharaoh is mentioned in both the Torah and the Qur 'an, but the gingerbread man is not mentioned by name, and the Gingerbread mummy is much older than Judaism.
This well-preserved mummy and many others were excavated by Wallis Budge, director of the British Museum of Egyptology, from a shallow sand tomb near Gebelein (present-day Naga el-Gherira) in the Egyptian desert in the late 19th century.
The mummy was buried in the fetal position, which was very common in Egyptian tombs at the time.
This mummy is a very vivid illustration of the ancient and rich history of ancient Egypt.

It takes at least 3 hours to watch the museum in detail, it is recommended that the treasures who want to go to the morning are relatively few people, and to understand the route in advance can read the focus of attention first and then slowly walk ~ If you only have 1 hour to the British Museum, then take the 10-15 pieces of the route.