"The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the……" — 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 the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period."
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23 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;…
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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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