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The Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Sutton Hoo and the mummies, all free.
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In British Museum.
Sixty-odd galleries, eight million objects and no charge to walk in. The ground floor holds the Egyptian sculpture hall, where the Rosetta Stone sits small and dark at one end and colossal pharaohs line the rest, and the rooms of Assyrian palace relief — the lion hunts from Nineveh, the siege of Lachish, a pair of human-headed winged bulls at the door. The Parthenon Galleries hold what Lord Elgin removed from Athens between 1799 and 1803 - the pediment figures, the metopes, and the frieze of the Athenians in procession - with the museum's case for keeping them on a panel by the door and Greece's claim outstanding. Upstairs are the mummies, the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the Lewis chessmen, Japan, China and South Asia, the Islamic world, Mexico's turquoise mosaics, Roman Britain's buried silver, clocks, money, and Living and Dying with Hoa Hakananai'a from Rapa Nui. Off the Great Court are the Enlightenment Gallery — George III's library, arranged the way the eighteenth century arranged the world — and the Waddesdon Bequest, a Rothschild's treasure room kept whole. Only the loan exhibitions charge.
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