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James. Patton is dead, but the mastermind behind him is still there, and that is the British Museum.

This museum is located in Great Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England, founded in 1753, is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world, although it is called one, but in the hearts of many people, in fact, there is no one, it is the world's oldest and largest museum.

The fame of this museum is so great that it can be said that there is no one on the earth who is highly educated and interested in antiques and art who has never heard of it.

Standing in front of the gate of this museum, just looking at the magnificent foyer, Jin Muchen could feel the grandeur that came to his face.

Many people may stand at the door of this museum, and they will be stunned by the stone carvings and exhibits at the entrance of this museum, but Jin Muchen stood at the door of this museum, but there was a sneer in his heart, if he was not afraid of being arrested by the police, he really wanted to spit a few mouthfuls at the door of this museum.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, there are many, many antiques and works of art here, but in Jin Muchen's eyes, this is a den of thieves, a place where thieves show off his inglorious past and the spoils of his thief career after being whitewashed.

This museum has more than 13 million exhibits, and the sources of these exhibits can be said to cover all over the world, and most of these exhibits. Almost all of them were the British, who drove strong ships and guns. Snatched it back.

Many of the exhibits have a disgraceful provenance. Even now, there are many countries that are fighting lawsuits with the British government over the things in this pavilion.

The British Museum has many names, the British call it the British Museum, and some people call it the Royal British Museum, because after the establishment of the museum, the British royal family used to donate a lot of things to the museum.

It is also known as the British History Museum. Because he not only recorded the history of Britain, but even many antiques in it, and also recorded the development history of other countries in the world.

This shows the richness and diversity of the museum's collections, and of course more than half of the exhibits were obtained illegally through guò, even through blood and barbaric looting.

The museum's collection was originally sourced from the famous collector Hans Murphy, the royal physician of King George II. Sir Sloane's collection of more than 80,000 artifacts and specimens.

In 1823, King George IX donated his father's extensive collection of books for more than 200 years. In addition to collecting a large number of British cultural relics, it also relied on the military force of the British. Looted the vast number of cultural relics of Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, India, China and other ancient countries.

The museum is currently divided into 10 branches: the Ancient Near East, the Coins and Commemorative Coins, the Egyptian, Ethnological, Greek and Roman Pavilions, the Japanese Pavilion, the Oriental Pavilion, the Prehistory and European Pavilion, the Printmaking and Drawing Gallery, and the Western Asia Pavilion.

Among them, the Egyptian Pavilion, the Greco-Roman Pavilion and the Oriental Pavilion are the most eye-catching, and the Egyptian Pavilion is the largest exhibition hall, with more than 70,000 pieces of ancient Egyptian cultural relics, which is the most prestigious collection of the British Museum, representing the high civilization of ancient Egypt.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that after Britain split the Ottoman Empire and took control of Egypt and the Suez Canal, they robbed tombs on a large scale in Egypt in the name of archaeology.

But the most striking of all the collections is the Oriental Pavilion, which has more than 100,000 artifacts from China, Japan, India and other Southeast Asian countries.

Among them, the Chinese showroom occupies several halls, exhibits from the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, the gold and jade products of the Ming and Qing dynasties, countless, according to statistics, only from China in the past dynasties of rare treasures amounted to more than 20,000 pieces, the vast majority of which are priceless treasures.

And this is still incomplete statistics, because of the relationship between the museum's exhibition space, the museum can only display 6.3 million cultural relics at present, and the remaining millions of cultural relics can only wait for time and take turns to take out the exhibition.

As a result, no one can say exactly how many antiques from China are in this museum.

However, one thing is for sure, almost all of the Chinese cultural relics hidden in this museum are the essence of Chinese antiques, and any one can be regarded as a national treasure in China.

Even many treasures have become extinct in China, but here, they can be found, which cannot but be said to be a regret and shame for the Chinese.

Jin Muchen stood at the gate of the museum, tightened his collar, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, don't be complacent, today's master, I am here to collect debts.

Give me back what you have to pay back if you take mine, and let you pay some interest today!

The museum now covers an area of 5.4 hectares, is a rectangular, milky white building, the main entrance is supported by 8 round columns to lift the narrow triangular end, there are many beautiful stone carvings in the triangle, it looks majestic, spectacular and solemn, he followed the flow of people, slowly walked to the gate of this museum.

The security check at the door is very strict, the entrance is the security department, you have to go through an X-ray, and you have to go through an X-ray of your belongings, and behind the security gate is a security guard with a big waist and a round waist, which is similar to the style of the airport security check.

After passing through the security check, there will be a tour guide who will stand at the door and keep telling you that there are those areas in the museum that are allowed to take pictures, and those areas are not allowed to take pictures.

Fortunately, the British are still a little face, this museum visit is not charged, but there is a donation box at the door, where you can donate one to three pounds, as the British Museum's future funds for the maintenance of these historical relics, seeing that from time to time there are really some Chinese who speak Mandarin to go to the donation box to throw money, Jin Muchen really wants to hehe their face.

All the collections here, except for Britain's own, most of the other collections were originally stolen by them from other countries, and now people from which countries come to see them, and thank you for your care of these antiques, I damn it, it's really ...... How much does it have to be a Virgin to donate to you?

Jin Muchen shook his head, didn't want to think about it anymore, and walked towards the museum.

Entering from the main entrance, the first thing that catches your eye is a magnificent fiberglass-roofed rotunda, which was opened to the public in the second half of 2000, when the queen came to cut the ribbon.

Bypassing the lobby and entering the pavilion, you will see a two-story building, about the same floor as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Most of the exhibition halls here are also on the first and second floors, and some are on the basement level, so this should be a three-story exhibition hall.

It has a total of more than 90 exhibition halls, divided into Greek and Roman, prehistoric and Roman Britain, West Asia, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and modern Europe, Egypt, the Orient, the British Library, ethnology, etc., as well as coins and medals, prints and drawings.

There are currently 6.5 million exhibits on display, and the rest of the collection is subject to regular rotation.

Entering the exhibition hall, look to the left, is the Egyptian pavilion that attracts the most audience, at the entrance stands two black granite statues of the ancient Egyptian king Amenophis III, nearly 3 meters high.

Behind the statue is a stele engraved in 2 languages and 3 styles, which is the famous Rosetta Stone and one of the treasures of the British Museum.

However, Jin Muchen didn't plan to enter this museum, because he had learned before he came that in this Egyptian pavilion, it is said that the most famous collection is the giant stone sculptures, and there are mummies.

Egyptian stone carvings, Jin Muchen has not studied much, but the mummy thing, just thinking about it makes his scalp numb, he is not as good as tomb robbing, so he is not much interested in visiting the big zongzi.

It is said that the number of Egyptian mummies in this museum is the largest in the world, and even exceeds the number of mummies in all museums in Egypt.

You said that you stole the tombs of the ancestors of the Egyptians, and you have to pull the corpses of the ancestors of the Egyptians down to display in the museum, I really don't know if this should be regarded as a kind of respect for antiques and cultural relics, or a kind of blasphemy.

Bypass the Egyptian Pavilion and walk in, you will enter the West Asia Pavilion, among these West Asian Pavilions, the Assyrian exhibition hall can attract Jin Muchen's attention the most, mainly because some time ago, in Los Angeles, Andy They once gave Jesse an Assyrian stone sculpture, so he will be very interested in the history of this country, and the stone relief in this museum is particularly wonderful, no less than the one Andy gave Jesse.

At the entrance of the exhibition hall, there are 2 stone carvings of human-faced bulls squatting on both sides, tall and majestic, each cow is carved with 5 legs, the front seems to be stationary, but the side looks like walking, it can definitely be called beautiful, think about the human beings thousands of years ago, can actually make such an imaginative stone carving, such skills and imagination, even if many modern people see it, they can only be ashamed of themselves, shocked.

Jin Muchen lingered in front of this exhibition hall for a long time, and then reluctantly left here and walked to the next exhibition hall.

Further inside, there is an I-shaped hall, and there is only one exhibit in the whole hall, which is the remains of the famous Parthenon Temple, a pile of exquisite marble statues.

These treasures are one of the few surviving proofs of ancient Greek civilization, and they were also obtained by the British in very disgraceful ways, and are now one of the treasures of the British Museum.

At the same time, the sculptures left in these temples are also treasures that Greece has been fighting with Britain so far, and it is one of the most controversial collections of the British Museum! (To be continued......)