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The History of the World in 100 Objects - Transcript文档详解

Episode 1 - Mummy of HornedjitefMummy of Hornedjitef (third century BC). A wooden coffin from Thebes, Egypt The sound of the past is in fact the sound of a ghost, its a haunting magnetic pulse -which is all thats left of a mighty star that we can still hear today, thanks to the Centre for Astrophysics at Jodrell Bank. The explosion that killed this star was so intense, that it was seen in broad daylight across Europe, North America and China in the summer of the year 1054; at least thats what the year was called in Europe. So what was our world up to, when men and women, however they counted the years, were gazing up to the heavens at this dying star, which they could see and we can still hear? What were they doing, making, thinking? Well, a thousand years ago in America, pyramids are taking shape on the Mississippi river; the worlds first bank notes are circulating in China; a magnificent Baghdad is the largest city in the world; in West Africa, Ghana rules a vast empire and, on a chilly island in northern Europe, theres a nasty surprise on the horizon for a king called Harold.In these programmes, Im travelling back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans, over two million years, have shaped our world, and been shaped by it. And Im going to tell this story exclusively through the things that humans have made ... all sorts of things, carefully designed and then either admired and preserved or used, broken and thrown away. Ive chosen just a hundred objects from different points on our journey -from a cooking pot to a golden galleon, from a Stone Age tool to a credit card, and in each programme Im going to be talking about one object from the British Museums collection. When I see it, I immediately think of the mastery of technology and art, the welding of the two ... I just thought it was beautiful to look at, that it made me feel that it was used, and used again and again ... Its a beautiful object, and its fascinating, of course, because its probably qui