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Neil MacGregor has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this…
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Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
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For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell…
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In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of…
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[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could…
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The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life,…
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The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
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For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
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Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and…
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:…
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Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world,…
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Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of…
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There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the…
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