Презентация по английскому языку на тему The British Museum

The British Museum in Bloomsbury houses the largest and richest collection of artifacts from prehistoric times to the present day. Founded in 1753. The present building was designed by Sir Robert Smirke.The British Museum covers a site of more than 4.5 hectares. Sir Hans Sloane (1660 –1753),founder of the British Museum. On his death his collection consisted of 71,000 objects, 337 volumes of dried plants,and 50,000 printed books, prints, drawings and manuscripts. 3400 BC Naturally preserved body of a man, late Predynastic period, from Egypt.It arrived on a Friday in March 1900 and by Monday the Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities reported that a fingertip had mysteriously disappeared.This was found during a recent examination,clutched tightly in the fist. 1900 – 1600 BC Prehistoric gold cape. Found at Mold, Wales, in 1833 in a burial chamber. 1850 BC Statues of Senwosret 3 from Thebes. Among many continuing gifts made by the Egypt Exploration Fund. 1350 BC Colossal red granite head found in the temple of Khonspekhrod in the precincts of the Temple of Mut, Thebes, possibly Amenhotep 3. 1250 BC Bust of Ramesses 2 (known as the “Younger Memnon”), acquired in 1816 by Belzoni from the King’s mortuary temple at Thebes. The head,which arrived in 1818,was perhaps the first piece of Egyptian sculpture to be recognised as a work of art by connoisseurs. 1200 BC The Great Harris Papyrus is one of the longest from Ancient Egypt ( 42 metres). This detail shows Ramesses 3 before the gods of Memphis: Ptah,Sekhmet and Nefertem. 720 BC Wooden coffin and lid of the Lady of the House Nesmut, from Thebes, Egypt. 645 BC The relief sculptures of the lion hunt of Ashurbanipal, “probably the finest animal scenes of antiquity”. 5th century BC “Discobolus” (the discus-thrower),one of several Roman copies after a lost Greek bronze original by the sculptor Myron. 460 BC Bronze head of Apollo, found at Tamassos,Cyprus in 1836.It was recognised as a rare Greek original in 1896. 447 – 438 BC “Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep” wrote the poet Keats on first seeing the sculptures of the Parthenon, and he described a sacrificial victim: a”heifer lowing at the skies”,portrayed in the Parthenon frieze. 664 – 332 BC Bronze cat from Memphis or Saqqara, Egypt. 5th-4th centuries BC Bracelet or armlet from the Oxus treasure,of which the Museum now has some 170 pieces.Thought to have been discovered on the north side of the river Oxus (present Amu dar’ya). 350 BC Sculptures from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum,Turkey), erected by Mausolos,ruler of Karia in south-west Asia Minor,and his wife Artemisia. 300-250 BC Bronze head of an athlete, southern Etruscan. 196 BC The Rosetta Stone, key to the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,bearing a decree written in three scripts,issued at Memphis, in honour of Ptolemy 5 Epiphanes. 2nd century BC Hellenistic Greek bronze head of a poet,perhaps the playwright Sophokles (496-406 BC),given by the Earl of Exeter in 1760. 27 BC- AD 14 Head of the Roman Emperor Augustus (r.27 BC-AD 14),found during excavations in the Sudan in 1910,”hidden by design in a pocket of soft sand”. It may have come from a statue in Roman Egypt decapitated by Meroitic tribesmen and taken beyond the imperial frontier. AD 5-25 The Portland Vase, the finest surviving example of Roman cameo glass, named after the Dukes of Portland who owned it from 1785 to 1945. Probably made in Italy. 1st century AD Bronze head of the Emperor Claudius (r.AD 41-54), found in the River Alde at Rendham, Suffolk,in 1907. Loaned to the Museum in1961. AD 590-625 Reconstructed helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.A king was probably buried there, possibly Raedwald, overlord of the English kingdoms. AD 1100 Shiva Nataraja (dancing Shiva in a ring of fire), South Indian bronze, acquired in 1987. Late 18th to early 19th century Gilded lacquer and wood Buddha from Rangoon,Burma, given by Captain Frederick Marryat in 1826.