Friday, October 28, 2022

Antiquities at The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

First opened in 1683, The Ashmolean is Britain's first public museum.  The present building dates from the 1840s.






Mummy of a young boy, about AD100





Cast of fossil skull, about
1.8 million years old





Augustus, 30BC



Death mask of Oliver Cromwell, 1658

Lawrence of Arabia's apparel


 

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