Masterpieces of the British Museum - Season 1

Masterpieces of the British Museum - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes6
DatesJun 14, 2006 - Jul 19, 2006

Episodes

The Sutton Hoo Helmet
Season 1Episode 130 min

The Sutton Hoo Helmet

The story of the discovery in East Anglia and restoration of the most iconic piece of the Sutton Hoo treasure, Britain's richest ever archaeological find.
Jun 14, 2006
The Assyrian Lion Hunt Reliefs
Season 1Episode 230 min

The Assyrian Lion Hunt Reliefs

Among the greatest artistic masterpieces of the ancient world, the Assyrian reliefs were found in the 19th century by an Iraqi archaeologist working for the British in competition with the French. The stone reliefs depict the great Assyrian monarch King Ashburnipal in his favoured practice of hunting lions.
Jun 21, 2006
The Lewis Chessmen
Season 1Episode 330 min

The Lewis Chessmen

Amongst the most appealing objects in the British Museum is a chess set, perhaps made by 12th century Norwegian craftsmen and discovered on a remote beach on the Isle of Lewis in 1831. Each piece is amazingly carved out of whale teeth - some are comic, some pensive and some grand.
Jun 28, 2006
Head of an Ife King from Nigeria
Season 1Episode 430 min

Head of an Ife King from Nigeria

The Benin bronzes and an exquisite bronze head known as the Head of Ife, estimated to be eight hundred years old, caused Europeans to revise completely their cultural assumptions about Africa. It is both artistically refined and made by masters of the technology of bronze casting.
Jul 5, 2006
Dürer's Rhinoceros
Season 1Episode 530 min

Dürer's Rhinoceros

Jul 12, 2006
Aztec Double-Headed Serpent
Season 1Episode 630 min

Aztec Double-Headed Serpent

Jul 19, 2006

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