A verse from the Bible that shows the stories of the Tring tiles to be untrue for us as Christians.
Luke speaking:’ And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.’
Luke 2: 52.
behind the iron railings
and a public telephone box.
We are all in coats, and the trees are bare.
The flag flies in a stiff wind.
Let’s see the beautiful, the surprising, and a garden before we get to two free 40-minute guided tours. From these two tours, I have chosen six objects presented with enthusiasm.
First, the beautiful, surprising and a garden.
The beautiful
The Egyptian area needs time of its own, but I did appreciate this cabinet with chairs.
The surprising
A garden
A garden of the afterlife is like the Earthly gardens of the wealthy in ancient Egypt. The trees include sycomore-figs, date palms, and doon palms.
The pool is teaming with fish and birds as well as the Lotus flower.
We then joined the two free tours:
Our first guide was looking at Ur. (The city/country God asked Abraham to leave .)
The white is shells.
The most delicate of the materials.
It is amazing that the translations of these tablets are being placed on the Internet. Ashurbanipal’s library has come out of the flames of defeat by the Babylonians from 651 BC to be available to us in 2025! He was a king who carried a stylus with his sword. Writing was important to him.
The kingdom that followed Assyria has also left much for us to see:
There was so much more, but not too much to make you tired. Our next guide after lunch was ready waiting near the Sutton Hoo exhibits.
She looked at things found in the UK in the early middle ages:
The helmet was buried around the years 620 – 625 AD. It is a symbol of the Early Middle Ages ‘ of Archaeology in general and of England’. Looking at the helmet as a whole, the helmet’s mouth, nose, and eyebrows form the image of a soaring bird with outstretched wings. It was found shattered: iron cap with crest, neck guard, cheek pieces, and with its tinned copper decorated in animal warrior motifs. It was better shattered than found crumpled, a more challenging repair .
A charity shop find of apocryphal tiles was also looked at:
These stories are neither accepted by Protestants nor Catholics. Their explanation is all in the above.
Our guides were enthusiastic, with one of them who still spent a good amount of time on digs. The groups were a reasonable size with time for questions. A privilege to be with them.
The relentless effort of those working at excavation sites helped me choose to travel with the word enthusiasm.
‘Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’
Winston Churchill
‘The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. ‘
Aldous Huxley
‘You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ‘
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
I have not been to the museum for 25 years! Good to see the original Sutton Hoo death mask found just across the river from us. Thank you! You had a very interesting time😀
They have made many display changes, which makes it really pleasant and easy to see many of the objects in the round. It is a good place to spend time. Lots from Sutton Hoo. We will go again while the garden is cold to work in.