DK Travel - Top 10 London
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True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 London covers all the citys major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation thats right for you.
This newly updated pocket travel guide for London will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, whether you want to see Big Ben from the top of the London Eye, visit the National Gallery, take a stroll through one of the many beautiful parks, or have an authentic pub experience.
Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 London.
Itineraries help you plan your trip.Top 10 lists feature off-the-beaten-track ideas, along with standbys like the top attractions, shopping, dining options, and more.
Comprehensive laminated pull-out map includes color-coded design, public transportation maps, and street indexes.
Maps of walking routes show you the best ways to maximize your time.
Additional maps marked with sights from the guidebook are shown on inside cover flaps, with selected street index and metro map.
DKs famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of the citys history and culture, provide inspiration as you explore. A free pull-out city map is marked with sights from the guidebook and includes a street index and a metro map.
The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 London.
Series Overview: For more than two decades, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have helped travelers experience the world through the history, art, architecture, and culture of their destinations. Expert travel writers and researchers provide independent editorial advice, recommendations, and reviews. With guidebooks to hundreds of places around the globe available in print and digital formats, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides show travelers how they can discover more.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: the most maps, photographs, and illustrations of any guide.
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The world's oldest national public museum has over 8 million items spanning the history of the world's cultures, from the stone tools of early man to 20th-century prints. The collection was started with the bequest of a physician and antiquarian, Sir Hans Sloane, in 1753. In the 18th and 19th centuries travellers and emissaries, such as Captain James Cook, Lord Curzon and Charles Townley, added treasures from around the world. The present building was completed in 1852. The central courtyard is used as a public space (for further details see ).
Great Russell Street WC1 020 7323 8299 www.britishmuseum.org Open 10am-5:30pm Sat-Thu, 10am-8:30pm Fri. 
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Great Court: 10am6pm SatThu, 9am8:30pm Fri Free, except major temporary exhibitions Free guided tours - There are three cafs and one restaurant.
- Picnics can be eaten in the forecourt by the main entrance.
- Highlights tours give an introduction to the collection.
- The British Museum shop sells reproduction artifacts.
Free maps are available and guides are on sale at the information desks. Otherwise start to the left of the main entrance with the Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman galleries. The Asian collection provides a change from Classical material, as do the early British, medieval and Renaissance galleries on the east side.
This spectacular 5th-century BC frieze from the Parthenon was made under Pericles and shows a procession in honour of the goddess Athena. It was obtained in 1779 by Lord Elgin, Ambassador to Constantinople.
Frieze depicting a Panathenaic procession
Cats and sacred cows were mummified in Ancient Egypt. This cat comes from Abydos and dates from the 1st century AD. Many Egyptian deities took on animal shapes, as seen on wall paintings and other artifacts.
Mummified cat from Abydos, Ancient Egypt
Decorated with shells, gold leaf, copper and lapis lazuli, this priceless ornament comes from Ur in Sumer, one of the world's earliest civilizations. Games and musical instruments are also displayed.
Carved in wood and covered with turquoise mosaic, this Aztec ornament was probably worn on the chest on ceremonial occasions.
In 196 BC Egyptian priests wrote a decree about Ptolemy V on this granite tablet in Greek, in demotic and in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Found in 1799, it proved crucial in deciphering Egyptian pictorial writing.
It is not known where and when this 1st-century blue-and-opaque-glass vase was found. In 1778, it was purchased by Sir William Hamilton, Britain's ambassador to Naples, who sold it to the Duchess of Portland. It had to be reassembled after a visitor smashed it into 200 pieces in 1845.
Originating in China and featuring an early depiction of the historical Buddha, this would have been placed over the doorway of a temple or pagoda.
Some of the greatest early English treasures are these silver plates from the 4th century, found at Mildenhall in Suffolk. Their decorations include sea nymphs, satyrs and Hercules.
Great Dish, Mildenhall Treasure
This is all that remains of the colossal granite statue of Ramesses II (c. 1279 BC) from his memorial temple at Thebes. Its arrival in England in the 19th century inspired the poet Shelley to write the poem Ozymandias.
Remains of Ramesses II, British Museum
The Nulthamalth (or fool dancer) is an important figure among the Kwakwaka'wakw people who enforces correct behaviour. This indigenous culture originates from the Pacific Northwest coast.
Some 6,000 years of history start with the spectacular carved reliefs depicting a variety of scenes from the Assyrian palace of Nineveh.
An extraordinary array of mummies and sarcophagi are among thousands of objects in one of the worlds greatest collections.
There are several rooms covering the marvels of the Classical world (c.3000 BC to c.AD 400). The sculptures that once decorated the outside of the Parthenon are a particular highlight.
Ancient Greek vase
Buddhist limestone reliefs from India, Chinese antiquities, Islamic pottery and a jaw-droppingly large cache of Japanese relics.
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