World’s famous cultural treasures

There was an article on North Shore news about an special event in the Royal BC museum in Victoria. A selection of treasures, the world’s cultures from the British Museum are making their North American debute this summer at Victoria’s Royal BC Museum. Therefore I made a small selection of some of the world’s famous cultural treasures here.

Nooshin Bakhtiari

 

Rosetta stone is a dark gray-pinkish granite stone with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. British physicist Thomas Young showed that both the demotic and hieroglyphic writing contains both alphabetic and symbolic elements which were closely related. This fact that the stone contains the same passage written in three different languages allowed it to be an ancient Code Book.

Darya-ye Noor “Ocean of light” is one of the largest diamonds in the world weighing about 182 carats. It’s color, pale pink is one of the rarest colors in diamonds. In 1965 a Canadian team concluded that the Darya-ye Noor may had been part of a large pink diamond that have been cut into two pieces; the larger part is Darya-ye Noor, the smaller part is believed to be 60 carats presently studded in a tiara. Both parts presently forms part of the Iranian Crown Jewels.

Tutankhamen came to the throne at age nine and ruled until his death at about age 18. During his reign he brought peace to his kingdom, by restoring worship of the Egyptian deity Amon. He was not an important king, but is so well known because of the treasures of his tomb, which was found virtually intact. Many other tombs fell to the grave rob robbers.

This Persian treasure with it’s sophisticated architecture reveals the splendor of Persepolis and the empire ruled by Persians two and a half thousand years ago.

 

500 BC. Achaemenid empire.

Gold Achaemenid lion (Persian treasures)

Achaemenid empire. Silver Rhytons cup (Persian treasures)

Small ornamented bowl made of wood,pearl and shell is part of the treasures coming to the Royal BC museum in Victoria.

Persian miniature is a Persian cultural painting that is mostly related to Persian mythology and poetry.