A kind person might describe my grasp on historical events as tenuous at best. My brain seems to treat things that occurred before the last two centuries as slippery, mucusy substances that should be expelled as quickly as possible. I learned things from this book. Interesting things. Lofty thing...
Neil MacGregor is the current director of the British Museum. What he has done is to pick 100 objects from the museum’s collection that spans the human activity over a period of 2 million years. The oldest object is an Olduvai handaxe found in Tanzania, Africa which is 2 million years old and the...
a sweeping and epic history that still manages to dive (somewhat) deeply into its subjects, and yet never gets stale thanks to short chapters that jump around the world. my only issue with the book is that i repeatedly kept thinking about how many of the objects shouldn't be in the british museum...