Oh, Yeah... The Museum. That...

Oh, Yeah... The Museum. That...

Guess what I was supposed to do a blog post on, like four weeks ago, mortals!

My trip to the British Museum.

That was kind of an important thing, so...

yeah.........


The trip to the British Museum was a dazzling display of the kind of traffic you get in London in a Thursday rush hour. And after that it was frankly a lot of walking about and annoying immature jokes from someone who's name I'm not going to mention.

The displays in the museum were fairly insightful into various ancient games, however, and offered an interesting perspective on the origins of many still-modern games such as Chess.

Too bad I didn't take what was offered.

Seriously, you plonk me into the middle of London, tell me there's the British Museum with some interesting artifacts on display with kinda useful information, AND that there's an astonishingly good nerd shop named "Forbidden Planet", then let me lose with ten equally nerdy friends, what do you think I'm gonna do?

Se we only spent about an hour at most in the actual museum, but that hour was full of looking at various ancient artifacts such as sarcophagi and bronze-age swords. The few actual game-related items we saw were only seen briefly, I'm afraid. We kinda wasted this trip wandering the streets of London; a couple of friends in my group took photos, but Heaven forbid they send them to me!

One of the main things I remember from the trip that was actually relevant to our purpose for being there was something we looked at for about two minutes toward the end of our time in the museum. This was simply the pair of statues of winged bulls. One of these statues, however, had some ancient graffiti carved into it's base; a version of the Royal Game of Ur.

Goodness knows what they used for dice....

Well, I payed for my part of the trip, and I'm paying for my lack of attention during the trip.

This is more of a blog posting my lack of knowledge. More of a confession than a meaningful post.

Sorry about that.

I'm out! Praise the Emperor of Mankind! *Hastilly leaves the room*