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A History of the World is a partnership between the 麻豆社 and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the 麻豆社, and schools, museums and audiences across the UK. The project focuses on the things we have made, from flint to mobile phone.

This week Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at the way the world's great religions began to perfect a way to visually express the divine, less than 2000 years ago.

He begins with a stone sculpture from modern day Pakistan that would create the classic image of the real-life Buddha who lived and roamed around north India in the 5th Century BC. His journey takes him onwards to Damascus, modern day Iran and Dorset in Great Britain.