Text. A Visit to the British Museum and the British Library
Stepanov wanted to see the British Museum. He had read so much about the famous British Library 1 which Karl Marx and Lenin once visited daily. On a Friday afternoon he went to Bloomsbury, a district in central London where the Museum was situated in a quiet street. The grand classical building looked impressive. In the numerous departments of the Museum he examined the magnificent collections of books, manuscripts, Greek, Roman and oriental antiquities, postage stamps, maps and coins. He was particularly interested to see one of the Museum’s most outstanding treasures — the Rosetta Stone. Found in 1799 near Rosetta, it gave the world the key to the understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics
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