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038 Ceremonial Ballgame Belt 26 May 2010

Wed, 26 May 10

A ceremonial stone belt from central America. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at the ceremonial version of the leather and fibre padding used in an ancient ball game - the world's oldest-known organised sport. Historian Michael Whittington considers the ritual aspects of the game and writer Nick Hornby describes how sport straddles the emotional territory between the sacred and the profane.