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“And the more you look at the history of Homo sapiens, it’s all about movement, right from the very first time they decided to…

— Neil MacGregor

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may…

— Neil MacGregor

The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but…

— Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

— Neil MacGregor

The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about…

— Neil MacGregor

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

— Neil MacGregor

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the…

— Neil MacGregor

While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known…

— Neil MacGregor

“Gold was the attribute of the great Inca sun god and represented his generative powers – gold was described as the ‘sweat of the…

— Neil MacGregor

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to…

— Neil MacGregor

The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city…

— Neil MacGregor

The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.

— Neil MacGregor