From the stone that unlocked hieroglyphics to towering statues and eerie mummies, the British Museum’s Ancient Egypt collection is a must-see for history lovers. ByDavid Nikel , Senior Contributor.

The collection was displayed upstairs in Tatefield Hall until Benny's death in 1968, when it and other Egyptian objects were left to The Royal Pump Room Museum in Harrogate.

As if the British Museum didn’t have enough ... an Aztec altarpiece locks in a BBC film crew and turns the room impossibly hot; a statue of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet provokes fights among ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British Museum Sonja ... multi-room archive building—paint a clear picture.

And although it costs an additional 100 Egyptian pounds (or $11) to enter, the Mummy Room should be high on your list of museum must-sees. Though the Egyptian Museum's fees are a bit steep ...