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A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects

Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.

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A History of the World in 100 Objects: Making Us Human (2,000,000 - 9000 BC): Mummy of Hornedjitef

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Neil MacGregor retells humanity's history through the objects it has made

Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, starts a new series retelling humanity's history through the objects it's made. The first is an Egyptian mummy

The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells the history of human development from the first stone axe to the credit card using 100 selected objects from the Museum.  His history will cover two million years and include items that were made in every part of the globe.  But his journey begins when, at the age of eight, he visited the British Museum for the first time and came face-to-face with an object that fascinated and intrigued him ever since - an Egyptian mummy.

Hornedjitef was a priest who died around 2250 years ago, and he designed a coffin that, he believed, would help him navigate his way to the afterlife.  Little did he know that this afterlife would be as a museum exhibit in London.  This ornate coffin holds secrets to the understanding of his religion, society and Egypt's connections to the rest of the world.

Neil MacGregor tells the story of Hornedjitef's mummy case, with contributions from egyptologist John Taylor, Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif and Indian economist and Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen

A History of the World in 100 Objects: Making Us Human (2,000,000 - 9000 BC)

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Neil MacGregor reveals the earliest objects that define us as humans.

Neil MacGregor tells the story of two million years of our development through a hundred objects in the British Museum. We begin with the first that make us human

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