I'm now standing in front of the one of the reliefs at Borobudur that gives us the best possible, and most vivid, evidence for this kind of seaborne contact. It's a superb carved panel, showing a ship of around 800, and it's one of several you can fi...
These contacts had been going on for well over a thousand years before Borobudur was built. People used to think that these connections were the result of conquest or emigration from India, but we now see them as part of a great maritime trading netw...
059:EPISODE 59 - Borobudur Buddha Head 婆罗浮屠佛陀头像 Borobudur Buddha head (between 780 and 840 AD). Stone; from Java, Indonesia 石制佛陀头像,来自印度尼西亚爪哇岛,公元七八年至公元八四o年 I am in the Indones...
Marrow fat doesn't sound tremendously appetising, but it is hugely nutritious - fuel not just for physical strength but also for a large brain. The brain is an extremely power- hungry mechanism. Although it accounts for only 2 per cent of our body we...
Leakey's goal was Olduvai Gorge, a deep crack in the flat savannah of northern Tanzania, not far from the border with Kenya. 李基(Leakey)的目的地是北坦桑尼亚与肯尼亚交界附近的奥杜瓦伊(Olduvai)峡谷平坦大草原上一道幽深...
002 : Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool 奥杜瓦伊石质切割工具 Abstract摘要 : Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. 奥杜瓦伊(Olduvai)石质切割工具(180万年前),出土于东...
But, should he and his possessions be here anyway? Questions like this crop up frequently -where do things from the past belong now? Should everything be exhibited where it was originally made? I'll be coming back to these questions at various points...
'When he arrived at the Museum in 1835, the hieroglyphic script had only just been deciphered, so the first step forward was to read all the inscriptions on his coffins, which told us who he was, what his job was, and something about the religious ba...
We will get to the very beginning of human history, but I'm not going to start there because I want to begin with the mummies -which is where I began when I first came through these doors into the British Museum in 1954 at the age of eight, and I thi...
001:Mummy of Hornedjitef木乃伊霍尼杰提 Abstract 内容摘要: Mummy of Hornedjitef (third century BC). A wooden coffin from Thebes, Egypt 木乃伊霍尼杰提夫(Hornedjitef)(公元前3世纪),木制棺椁,发现于古埃及底比斯城(T...