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: After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC): Egyptian Clay Model of Cattle

Egyptian Clay Model of Cattle

After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC)

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Neil MacGregor tells the colourful tale of four Egyptian clay cows older than the pyramids

Neil MacGregor's world history encounters four miniature cows made from Nile mud over 5, 500 years ago.  considers the state of human culture in Egypt before the pharaohs

Neil MacGregor, in his history of mankind as told through objects at the British Museum, selects four miniature clay cows to show the major changes that early man was undergoing at the end of the Ice Age. These four frail looking cows were made from Nile mud in Egypt 5,500 years ago, way before the time of the pyramids or the pharaohs.  Why did the Egyptians start burying objects like this one with their dead? Neil goes in search life and death on the Nile and discovers how the domestication of cattle made the humble cow transformed human existence.

A History of the World in 100 Objects: After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC)

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Why did farming start at the end of the Ice Age? Clues remain in objects left behind

Neil MacGregor's story takes him to the end of the Ice Age, as the first farmers created objects to consume new foods, venerate new gods and even take a new look at sex

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