Assyria and the King of the Earth (virtual tour in the British Museum)
Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:30 to 8:30 pm Greenwich Suggest Time (UTC±0)
Tickets below.
What did it indicate to be the king of the planet 3,000 decades ago?
Sign up for us on this digital tour of the British Museum’s Assyrian gallery of Ashurnasirpal specified by an ex-British Museum guide. We’ll be working with walk-through visuals of the gallery to seriously bring it to life.
Master about the Assyrians, with their heartland in northern Mesopotamia, who after dominated the recognized environment and designed the 1st correct empire.
Just one of the Assyrian kings, Ashurnasirpal II, controlled a enormous empire, built legal guidelines, managed the faith and he was also a warrior king, major armoured battering rams and refined amphibious assaults.
And then he’d take it easy in an expansive palace of vibrant friezes guarded by supernatural creatures. (He also fought lions in his spare time.)
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NB: You should take note, this digital tour is not an formal tour of the British Museum.
About this digital tour:
- 45 -50 minutes
- By means of Zoom application and we’ll electronic mail you the password on the morning of the tour
- £7 for each particular person or
- £10 for each family members (household can be in two spots on 2 units so you can invest in for a family member who does not live with you)
How to sign up for the virtual tour:
- We’ll email you entire facts of the Zoom conference website link, password and Assembly ID on the early morning of the tour.
- 5 minutes ahead of commence time, click on on the backlink we send you or log in by using the Zoom app and then sit again and get pleasure from the tour.
- Please place your microphone on mute, but you will be able to unmute and question thoughts at the end of every single halt.
- There is also a ‘chat’ characteristic on Zoom that permits you to write your questions in dwell time to the tour manual.
Who’s the tour guide? Loona Hazarika of Let’s Uncover London was trained by the British Museum to give the official tours of the Japanese and Assyrian galleries from 2006 to 2010. He has guided hundreds of folks about his birthplace London and has appeared on the Tv set sequence Urban Secrets and techniques and BBC TV’s Furry Builder. He retains an MA degree from the University of Cambridge.