Spanning two million years of human history, London's British Museum holds the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon Marbles, and treasures gathered from every continent.
Wander the soaring glass-roofed Great Court, trace the cracking of hieroglyphs, and lose hours in galleries that remain free to enter.
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