This 13-part series leads viewers through some of the most impressive exhibits in one of the world’s greatest repositories of art and artifacts: the British Museum. The series also covers the origin and history of the Museum and takes a look into the Manuscripts Department and the British Museum library: the largest in the world. 13-part series, 26-28 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : The British Museum: The House Itself | The God-Haunted: Ancient Greece | The Egyptian Collection: The Beauty of It All | Roman Britain | Coins and Medals: The Small Change | Sumer, Babylon, Assyria: The Wolves | Intimate Details of Roman Life | Prints and Drawings: The Image | Medieval and Later Antiquities: The Casual Survivors | The Oriental Collections of the British Museum | The Library of the British Museum | The Study of Mankind | The Workshop

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