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Looking at my watch, before I knew it, it was already more than three o'clock in the morning, and it seemed to be a little difficult to continue the search.

After all, the museum is so big, and there are so many collections in the museum, and it's not like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which is dedicated to a single collection of art.

The collection here is very large, with more than 3 million pieces on display alone, so if you want to scavenge for some good things, I am afraid that there will not be enough time.

Jin Muchen can only look for those fine products to get, but what are the treasures of the British Museum?

Regarding these, Jin Muchen also did a survey before he came, first of all, the mummies in the Egyptian pavilion, some of which are said to be the mummies of the pharaoh.

But as an antique lover, Jin Muchen is not interested in these thousands of years of dried corpses, he really doesn't understand the bad taste of these white-skinned ghost animals, thousands of years of dried corpses, what is there to see, they are still regarded as treasures, and they have gone through a lot of hardships to steal them from Egypt.

Forget about this treasure of the town hall, and the Greek Parthenon sculpture that is regarded as the treasure of the second town hall, Jin Muchen only glanced at it and knelt down.

What can I say about this thing, the ancient Greek civilization thousands of years ago was able to carve such a marble statue, which is indeed very admirable, but this thing is also very big.

occupies an entire exhibition hall, and the format of the Nongshen Temple is similar to the pattern of the Golden Zodiac in the Saint Seiya cartoon that Jin Muchen watched on TV when he was a child.

It's just the specifications of this agricultural temple. It's not as grand as in the cartoons. And the damage is also very bad. Although it has been refined by the professionals of the British Museum, it has not been restored to its original intact appearance.

Even the heads of the two fairy stone sculptures standing at the entrance of the temple have disappeared, and these marble statues, although not as magnificent as in the cartoon, are often several meters high and weigh more than several tons.

Originally, there were not too many places in Jin Muchen's purple jade space, if he was engaged in such a set of stone carvings. Then he wouldn't have to pretend otherwise.

After thinking about it again and again, Jin Muchen simply took the most essential part of this temple.

In front of the temple, there is a marble statue of the goddess, and this is the essence of this temple, the Monument of the Nymph of the Sea!

This monument is the famous Niereides Monument!

The above text mainly records the imagination of the ancient Greeks piling up the sea nymph and the scriptures that sacrificed to her.

As soon as Jin Muchen waved his hand, this monument was included in his pocket.

Walk on, the turnaround of Hall 4. A stone tablet made of granite comes into view.

This stele also belongs to the Egyptian Pavilion. It is also the Rosetta Stone, which is also regarded as a treasure by the British Museum.

The reason why this stele is so important is because of the crooked hieroglyphs engraved on it, without which much of the history of ancient Egypt would not have been translated.

There is no way to verify the history of Egypt and pre-Egypt, so from an archaeological point of view, the significance of this stele is very important, it is a dictionary of ancient Egyptian characters.

Jin Muchen also wanted to take this stele away, but after thinking about it, the size of this stele was too big, and the tonnage was not light, thinking about the remaining space in his purple jade space, it was better to forget it.

The Chinese Pavilion on the first floor has already been visited, so except for such a few important exhibition halls on the first floor, there is basically nothing worth Jin Muchen's efforts.

To tell the truth, Jin Muchen really wanted to be like the British in the Old Summer Palace, when they left, they put a fire in this museum and burned down this place that symbolized the pride of the British.

But think about it, after all, the things in this museum are not only British national treasures, but also many national treasures belonging to countries around the world.

For example, the Chinese porcelain that he couldn't take away, as well as these Greek and Egyptian antique relics, these are all things that belong to other people, and he wants to burn British treasures, but he can't bring them with him.

So Jin Muchen thought about it again and again, and finally held back.

The third floor has already been to the third floor, where is there anything other than the Stein secret room, there is nothing else worth starting, and the second floor will go again, because before going, Jin Muchen has to go to the basement.

Because on the façade of the exhibition hall in the basement, there are still a few treasures that are regarded by the British as treasures of the museum.

For example, the Mausoleum of Mausolus in Room 21, which was built in 353 B.C. by the king of a Greek city-state called Halicarnassus in present-day southern Turkey, was built for him and his wife.

Later, it was also stolen back to England by the British with very disgraceful means, and this royal tomb is actually very similar to the Greek temple seen earlier, which is composed of marble carvings.

It's just that the architectural form of the temple resembles a palace, and the architectural form of this royal tomb is very similar to a pyramid.

The British didn't know how much effort they had put into moving such a complete set of royal tombs from Turkey.

The area of this royal tomb is not small, and those stone carvings are very similar to the previous Greek agricultural temple, carved from marble, large in volume and heavy in mass.

Even if Jin Muchen wanted to move, it was impossible to move them all, so he also chose the most essential part of this royal tomb to get, that is, the two marble statues in front of the sarcophagus in the royal tomb, the mythical version of King Mausolus and his wife, were all included in his bag.

To be honest, as soon as he remembered that these two statues were the guards of people's tombs, Jin Muchen felt a stump in his heart, after all, things that were related to the dead seemed very obscure in the eyes of him, a Chinese.

But how to say this thing, we Chinese seem to be very guilty, but for these white-skinned ghost animals in the West, this is an out-and-out treasure.

For example, the statue of the Assyrian king that Andy gave to Jesse before, to put it bluntly, that thing was also pulled out of people's graves, but it was also worth millions, so the taste of Westerners in antiques, but like their aesthetics, made us Chinese scratch their heads, they are the real meat and vegetarian taboo.

After visiting the No. 21 exhibition hall, Jin Muchen came to the No. 25 exhibition hall next to it.

In Room 25, there is also a set of things that the British Museum considers to be the treasure, that is, the bronze statue of Benin from Africa.

Maybe many people have the impression that Africa has always been a wild place, from the time it was discovered, until now, many people in many places are living in the most primitive way, and when they were discovered by Europeans, they even still live in primitive societies.

Therefore, it is impossible for those black people to create any civilization, let alone any antiques and works of art that have been handed down.

This may be the first thought that many people have after hearing about African antiques, and even many people may immediately think of African antiques when they hear about them.

The grass skirts worn on the dark-skinned girls, and the bone carvings they hung around their necks, all kinds of fish bones, wolf teeth, etc.

In fact, since the birth of the African continent, many civilizations have been bred on that continent, and it is not the wild land we imagined.

Even if the brains of those blacks are really low, they have made history and civilization.

The relics left behind now are proof, such as the obelisk of Ethiopia, the library of Mali, the stone town of Zimbabwe, the petroglyphs of South Africa, etc., and among the works of art left by African civilization, the most prominent is the bronze statue of Benin.

Originating deep in the tropical jungle along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, the Kingdom of Benin was a black kingdom formed during the Middle Ages with a history of 800 years, during which time the country has been one of the most developed cultural centers on the continent.

Bronze art was born here and matured to the pinnacle of art, which is a symbol of the Kingdom of Benin as a civilization.

Writing has never been used in the history of the Kingdom of Benin, and the Beninese have always documented their history through images cast or carved in bronze or ivory.

The evolution of the Kingdom of Benin over the years can be seen in the statues of kings and queens, as well as in reliefs reflecting court life.

Bronze carving in Benin evolved into a court art after the 13th century. The King of Benin at that time provided for a large number of artisans, and all the works belonged to the court.

Statues of figures of different sizes and reliefs depicting scenes of hunting and warfare adorn the halls, columns and cloisters of the royal palace, and from the 15th to the 17th centuries, bronze works of the Kingdom of Benin were more realistic and lifelike.

In the 19th century, when the slave trade devoured the continent, Western colonialists began to carve up the land.

The ancient civilization of the Kingdom of Benin was destroyed by the British colonizers, and most of the bronze art treasures were looted and scattered around the world.

The British Museum's collection is the most essential part of the Benin bronze statues that have been lost overseas, it can be said that these bronze statues record the entire process of the birth, development, prosperity, and decline of the only civilization on the African continent, and these bronze statues are no less than the Siku Quanshu in the eyes of us Chinese for Africans.

Since he came, of course he couldn't let it go, this is one of the few black African things that Jin Muchen is interested in, there are more than 60 bronze statues here, all of which were cut off from the wooden pillars of the Benin Palace, Jin Muchen waved his hand and took away all the bronze statues, leaving only broken glass all over the ground...... (To be continued......)