Crash Course
Migrations and Intensification: Crash Course Big History #7
What happens when the earth reaches its carrying capacity of humans? As human populations grow, societies change from hunters and gatherers to agriculture to the industrial age and beyond. A video takes a global perspective of migration...
BBC
Bbc Podcasts: Episode 11: King Den's Sandal Label 1 Feb 2010
A small label, made from hippopotamus ivory and attached to the sandals of one of the earliest known kings of Egypt. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at what this label, with its hieroglyphs describing the king and...
BBC
Bbc Podcasts: Episode 15: Early Writing Tablet 5 Feb 2010
A small clay tablet made in Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago. It is covered with sums but also some of the world's earliest writing - about beer rationing. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at how humans invented...