British Museum

My historical and cultural tour continues at the British Museum.

I spent a couple of hours there and by the end I was getting 'museum fatigue' so I'll have to return another time to finish my education.

I'll start with a couple of Peruvian artifacts:

This is a Nasca funerary bowl. The Nasca  (or Nazca) people lived around the time 100 BC to 750 AD in Southern Peru.  They are the people that created the Nasca drawings  - huge geoglyphs (that's drawings on the ground to you and me) in the Nasca desert.

According to Wikipedia the Nasca had polychrome pottery and used up to 15 different colours.

Nascan pottery also depicted local plants, animals, priests and deities.