The Louvre

Crown of St. Louis 1265 a.d.

 The Louvre!  You could spend a year in The Louvre and not begin to grasp all it holds.  Richard and Jo went off to look at the art (e.g. The Mona Lisa) but I wandered in the direction of the antiquities.  This is an extremely random sampling of what I saw starting with a crown of St. Louis, a king of France important to us if for no other reason than our county of Minnesota is St. Louis.

Charlemagnes' Arm 1165 a.d.

Gladiator's Helmet 80 a.d.

Amphora Reward Olympics 325 b.c.

From Darius the Persian 510 b.c.

An Assyrian Hero 710 b.c.

A Mesopotamian Prince 3000 b.c.