"Objects are better than text at conveying narrative" — Neil MacGregor
"Objects are better than text at conveying narrative"
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Neil MacGregor
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23 Quotes by Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor has 23 quotes on this site.
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From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make;…
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For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects…
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In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice 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…
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The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have…
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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,…
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things…
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Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of…
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Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the…
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For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure…
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