In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide takes you on a guided tour of the strangest, weirdest, and most macabre objects in the British Museum.
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Time Stamps:
1″48 – The Crystal Skull
5″10 – The FeeJee Mermaid
9″10 – Dr John Dee’s Wax Seals and Enochian Magic
12″30 – Banky’s Peckham Rock
16″21 – The Cleopatra Propaganda Lamp
18″46 – Mummified Cats
22″26 – Gebelein Man and Ancient True Crime
25″21 – Corpse Medicine and Eating Mummies
Tour Description:
Our tour starts with the mysterious Crystal Skull, famous for being… a fake? Then, we’ll head to the Enlightenment Gallery to visit the Feejee Mermaid, a circus sideshow gaff made from a mummified fish, and talk about Dr John Dee’s Enochian Magick objects.
Heading upstairs, we visit the Gallery where iconic street artist Banksy performed a reverse museum heist by sneaking something into the British Museum!
We’ll check out a bit of ancient propaganda against Cleopatra before spending some time with the cat mummies – did you know they were used for fertiliser for British farming?
Finally, we research a bit of ancient true crime with the Gebelein man and finish back in the Enlightenment Gallery to talk about a grim topic – corpse medicine and Victorian cannibalism! Yes – we ate mummies!
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