“[T]he museum boasts a wonderfully evocative array of finds from the land of the pharaohs, including jewelry, pots, papyrus documents, frescoes, carvings, and some of the...oldest surviving clothes.”
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Fodor's
"If you don't get your fill of Egyptian artifacts at the British Museum, you can see more in the neighboring Petrie Museum, located on the first floor of the DMS Watson library."
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Time Out
"Where the British Museum’s Egyptology collection is strong on the big stuff, the Petrie is an extraordinary selection of minutiae."
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Frommer's
"Britain made a lot of mistakes when it comes to Egypt, and not just with Suez. Almost as soon as “explorers” could break into ancient tombs, they would lose track of thousands of things..."
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"From the cotton Tarkhan dress last worn 5,000 years ago to Roman funerary portraits painted in beeswax, the things one finds in these stacks could blow a mind."
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