Things They Make Quotes by Neil MacGregor

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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…
• Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
• For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell…
• In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of…
• [The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could…
• The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life,…
• The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
• For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
• Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and…
• It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:…
• Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world,…
• 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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