Footprints around london 2

British Museum!!!!
This famous colossal museum which looks like a structure out of the Roman Empire in its heyday is fitting for all the magnificent exhibits it holds. It is so huge it's impossible to finish going through the exhibits in one day! which is why i'll have to go back again! i only managed to see the egyptian mummies and some of the display in 'The Enlightment' exhibit. It was so interesting! i finally get to see the things i have studied before! like the relics from the indus civilisation, the guptas, the mesopotamians and many more! reminds me of history classes in RGS where we learnt about all these ancient lost civilisations! i enjoyed those classes a lot! like Shieh Yuan once said, i have an 'ancient spirit'. though i don't quite remember what that means but i do have a strong sense of attraction to things from a long time ago. it was so intriguing to learn how people in the past lived, to walk back on the timeline and see what made everything click in the past. the grounds we are walking on have once been where others have walked one thousand years or more ago! it just makes me want to find out more about history! not the battles, not the politics of history, but simply the plain old everyday life of people of the past!
Oh, and i have a suspicion that JK Rowling probably took the inspiration of the ceiling in the great hall that reflects the weather outside from the British Museum! It has a huge ceiling made up of many triangles that shows the sky outside so it has a ever-changing hue! it looks artificial but i think it's a really good idea for a ceiling! and i saw this intricate netted golden egg-shaped container used by Indian Royalty to store their precious bezoar stones, which were actually gallstones from goats, but were known to have astonishing healing powers. Rowling probably walked past this exhibit too! i remember bezoar stones in Harry Potter had unrivalled healing powers too! haha! this is interesting!
i think the most jaw dropping part of the British Museum would be its reading room! it's a pity photography's not allowed in the reading room. i guess it's a measure to protect all the old books! gosh! you have to see the reading room! it's not a regular reading room! yes, it has books lined from floor to ceiling. but the thing is it had 4 levels with books lined from floor to ceiling on every level! and the whole reading room is circular so when you first step into the room, it's this 360 deg view of all the books! and the knowledge it encapsulates! wow! i couldn't stop inhaling sharply when i saw this! it is so amazing! and famous writers, thinkers, academicians like Sun Yat Sen, Charles Dickens etc. have used this reading room before! the history behind this reading room!