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.

A History of the World in 100 Objects: The World in the Age of Confucius (500 - 300 BC): Basse Yutz Flagons

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Neil MacGregor continues his material history of humanity, with the early Celts.

A history of the world told through objects at the British Museum. Neil MacGregor on what was happening in Northern Europe two 2,500 years ago - some drinking it seems!

Neil MacGregor's history of the world recounted through objects at the British Museum arrives in Northern Europe two and a half thousand years ago. 

Neil explores the early world of the Celts through two bronze drinking flagons, considered to be the most important and earliest examples of Celtic art. The writer Jonathan Meades and one of the world's leading experts on this period, Barry Cunliffe, help describe the Celts, dissect the stereotypes and consider their celebrated love of drink.


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Can meanings hidden in friezes and flagons tell us as much as the writings of great men?

2,500 years ago thinkers such as Confucius and Plato were exploring how people should live, but can objects like the Parthenon sculptures or a golden chariot tell us more?

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