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014 Jade axe 4 Feb 2010 Thu, 4 Feb 10 A 6,000-year-old, polished, stone axe found in Canterbury but made in the Alps. Between 5,000 and 2,000BC Mesopotamia built the royal city of Ur, the Indus valley boasted the city of Harappa, and the great early
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015 Early writing tablet 5 Feb 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 10 A small clay tablet made in Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago. It is covered with sums but also some of the worlds earliest writing about beer rationing. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum
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016 Flood Tablet 8 Feb 2010 Mon, 8 Feb 10 A small tablet, found in modern Iraq, tells of a plan by the gods to destroy the world by means of a great flood. Pre-dating the story of Noah, when it was translated in 1872, this fragment of the Epic of Gil
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017 Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 9 Feb 2010 Tue, 9 Feb 10 An ancient Egyptian papyrus from around 1550 BC, used to train scribes. It contains 84 different calculations to help with various aspects of Egyptian life, from pyramid building to working out
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018 Minoan Bull Leaper 10 Feb 2010 Wed, 10 Feb 10 A small, bronze sculpture of a man leaping over a bull from the island of Crete is the starting point for an exploration of the Minoans, their rich bronze making tradition and the role of the bull in
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019 Mold Gold Cape 11 Feb 2010 Thu, 11 Feb 10 A gold cape made almost 4,000 years ago and discovered in 1833, by a group of workmen looking for stones in a field near the village of Mold in North Wales. This sheet of pure gold, found wrapped around a
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020 Statue of Ramesses II 12 Feb 2010 Fri, 12 Feb 10 Colossal statue of Ramesses II, one of ancient Egypts most famous and successful pharaohs. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, considers the achievements of Ramesses II, a ruler who bui
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021 Lachish Reliefs 15 Feb 2010 Mon, 15 Feb 10 Stone carvings from the palace of King Sennacherib of Assyria, showing his army attacking the town of Lachish, near Jerusalem. The Assyrian war machine was to create the largest empire that the world had
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022 Sphinx of Taharqo 16 Feb 2010 Tue, 16 Feb 10 A sphinx with the black African face of pharoah Taharqo of Kush, in Sudan. These days few people even know that the mighty land of the Pharaohs was once ruled over by its southern neighbour. Neil MacGr
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023 Chinese Zhou ritual vessel 17 Feb 2010 Wed, 17 Feb 10 A Chinese bronze vessel used both for feasting and as an object to be buried alongside the dead for use in the afterlife. What can this beautiful bronze bowl tell us about life in China at thi
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024 Paracas Textile 18 Feb 2010 Thu, 18 Feb 10 Pieces of cloth found wrapped around a mummified body on the coast of Peru. The early Peruvians went to astonishing lengths to make and decorate their textiles whose colours remain striking to this day.
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025 Gold Coin of Croesus 19 Feb 2010 Fri, 19 Feb 10 One of the worlds earliest coins, minted in ancient Turkey about 2,500 years ago. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at how a powerful new state found a dramatic way to help run i
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026 Oxus Chariot Model 22 Feb 2010 Mon, 22 Feb 10 This hand-sized model of a gold chariot pulled by four horses helps explain the rule of Cyrus, the 'king of kings', and his ambitions for his vast territory. Cyrus, the first Persian emperor, created
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027 Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith 23 Feb 2010 Tue, 23 Feb 10 Sculpture of a half-man, half-horse rearing over a dead human from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Carved out of marble around 440BC, these beautiful figures continue to generate
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028 Basse Yutz Flagons 24 Feb 2010 Wed, 24 Feb 10 The Basse Yutz Flagons - two bronze drinking flagons made by the Celts in Northern Europe 2,500 years ago and considered to be the most important and earliest examples of Celtic art. Writer Jonathan M
