Pieces of cloth found wrapped around a mummified body on the coast of Peru. The early Peruvians went to astonishing lengths to make and decorate their textiles whose colours remain striking to this day. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, asks what were they for and what they tell us about the beliefs of this time? He tries to piece together what life might have been like for these people living on the Paracas peninsula around 500 BC. (Duration: 15 mins)