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    A History of the World in 100 Objects was a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, consisting of a 100-part radio series written and presented...
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  • A History of Ireland in 100 Objects was a joint project by The Irish Times, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Royal Irish Academy to define one...
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    Double-headed serpent (category Artefacts from Africa, Oceania and the Americas in the British Museum)
    featured in A History of the World in 100 Objects, a series of radio programs that started in 2010 as a collaboration between the BBC and the British Museum...
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    from the British Museum was chosen to be one of the items featured in the radio series A History of the World in 100 Objects. The series started in 2010...
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    Minoan Bull-leaper (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum)
    over the bull's horns onto the back. The bull-leaper was object 18 in the BBC Radio 4 Series A History of the World in 100 Objects. Week 4 of the series...
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    2011-12-16. British Museum page on the statue More detailed British Museum page BBC Radio 4's A History of the World in 100 Objects page on Taharqo's Sphinx This...
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    in Rome. The Meroë Head was the 35th object in A History of the World in 100 Objects, a BBC Radio 4 series first broadcast in 2010, which traces the story...
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    Bi (jade) (category Archaeological artifacts of China)
    ISBN 978-0-670-02270-0. A History of the World in 100 Objects (object 90). Design of the Medal for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Archived August 12, 2008, at the Wayback...
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    Neil MacGregor (category Directors of museums in the United Kingdom)
    A History of the World in 100 Objects and, in 2012, a series of fifteen-minute programmes after The World at One called Shakespeare's Restless World,...
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    Bronze Head from Ife (category African sculptures in the British Museum)
    Ife Head was included in the British Museum/BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects Celebrating Black Awareness Day 2017 at the Zumbi dos Palmares Monument...
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    Seated Buddha from Gandhara (category Asian sculptures in the British Museum)
    as the inspiration of a BBC Radio 4 programme in the series called A History of the World in 100 Objects in May 2010. The programme discussed the change...
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    Lachish reliefs (category Middle Eastern objects in the British Museum)
    is today in the British Museum in London, and was included as item 21 in the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects by the museum's...
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  • World in 100 Objects, a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, published in 2010 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, a book by Raj...
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    Hinton St Mary Mosaic (category Romano-British objects in the British Museum)
    2022 excavations on the site. The mosaic was chosen as Object 44 in the BBC Radio 4 programme A History of the World in 100 Objects, presented by British...
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    Kakiemon elephants (British Museum) (category Asian objects in the British Museum)
    featured in A History of the World in 100 Objects, a series of radio programmes that started in 2010 as a collaboration between the BBC and the British...
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    Younger Memnon (category Ancient Egyptian sculptures in the British Museum)
    It is museum number EA 19. In February 2010, the statue was featured as object 20 in A History of the World in 100 Objects, a BBC Radio 4 programme by British...
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    Paracas textile (category Artefacts from Africa, Oceania and the Americas in the British Museum)
    from the British Museum were chosen to be one of the A History of the World in 100 Objects which was a series of radio programmes that started in 2010...
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    A History of the World in 100 Objects produced in collaboration with the British Museum, which was released on 4 September 2010. A replica of The Great...
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  • Neil (2011). A History of the World in 100 Objects. New York: Viking. pp. 221–226. ISBN 9780670022700. Shillington, Kevin (2012). History of Africa. London:...
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    Swimming Reindeer (category Prehistoric objects in the British Museum)
    chosen as object 4 in the History of the World in 100 Objects. This was a series of radio programmes created in a partnership between the BBC and the British...
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    Phil Harding (archaeologist) (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    archaeology on the battlefield of Waterloo alongside veterans and serving personnel. In 2010, the radio series A History of the World in 100 Objects featured...
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    Dürer's Rhinoceros (category Prints and drawings in the British Museum)
    Kantor Today, 2014 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dürer's Rhinoceros. BBC audio file A History of the World in 100 Objects Portal:  Visual arts...
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    Holy Thorn Reliquary (category Medieval European objects in the British Museum)
    The British Museum BBC website for A History Of The World in 100 Objects (includes good high-zoom image of front) Saint Catherine of Alexandria in ronde-bosse...
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    excavating the Standard a challenging task. Woolley's excavators were instructed to look for hollows in the ground created by decayed objects and to fill...
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    Museum of Art/Yale University Press, ISBN 1588391140, Fully online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art BBC: A History of the World in 100 Objects Passage...
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    Neil (2010). A History of the World in 100 objects. London: Allen Lane. pp. 613–. ISBN 978-1-84614-413-4. "British Museum catalogue image of Sudanese slit...
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  • Scott. The print was selected by British Museum director Neil MacGregor as object 97 in the A History of the World in 100 Objects, a series of radio programmes...
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    featured in A History of the World in 100 Objects, a series of radio programmes that started in 2010 as a collaboration between the BBC and the British...
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    Warren Cup (redirect from The Warren Cup)
    at the Yorkshire Museum. The Warren Cup is the 36th object in A History of the World in 100 Objects, a BBC Radio 4 series first broadcast in 2010. In 2011...
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    in 100 Objects. BBC. Retrieved 24 October 2010. MacGregor, Neil. "Episode 98 – Throne of Weapons – transcript". A History of the World in 100 Objects. BBC...
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