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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Mahiole (section History of the World in 100 Objects)
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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Meroë Head (redirect from Head of Augustus from Meroë)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hornedjitef (category Ancient Egyptian objects in the British Museum)
as the first of the hundred objects selected by British Museum Director Neil MacGregor in the 2010 BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects...
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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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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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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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2024-04-19. "BBC Radio 4 - A History of the World in 100 Objects, Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD), Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy - Episode Transcript...
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the World in 100 Objects. The British Museum bowl inscription on the inside of the bowl tells that King Wu's brother, Kang Hou, who was the Duke of Kang...
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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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Tlazōlteōtl (redirect from Statue of Tlazolteotl)
(1982)[pages needed] de Sahagun (1982), pp. 8–9 MacGregor, Neil (2011). A History of the World in 100 Objects (First American ed.). New York: Viking Press. p. 445....
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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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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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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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