Name: The Turin Shroud - A Relic for the 20th Century - Making History
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Description: Patrick Boucheron brings history to life through objects. With the inventions of photography the Turin shroud, a relic venerated for centuries, found a new lease of life as the photographic negatives seemed to confirm its sacred status. A relic in the age of mechanical reproduction.

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La Sacra Sindone, una reliquia per il XX secolo

The Turin Shroud - A Relic for the 20th Century

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El Sudario de Turín: una reliquia para el siglo XX

Patrick Boucheron brings history to life through objects. With the inventions of photography the Turin shroud, a relic venerated for centuries, found a new lease of life as the photographic negatives seemed to confirm its sacred status. A relic in the age of mechanical reproduction.

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Making History

<p>Patrick Boucheron brings history to life through objects. With the inventions of photography the Turin shroud, a relic venerated for centuries, found a new lease of life as the photographic negatives seemed to confirm its sacred status. A relic in the age of mechanical reproduction.</p>

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Historian Clément Fabre traces the history of the humble chopstick through the ages.

How Chopsticks Made the Chinese

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Napoleon's gray frock coat was a way of conveying to Europe that though he was now a statesman, he was first and foremost a man of war

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The pirate flag flies high at most carnivals and fancy dress parties, but it's got a long and violent history behind it

The Pirate Flag

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In 1912 a German archaeologist discovered the bust of Nefertiti, wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, when he uncovered the workshop of an ancient artist at Amarna. 

The Nefertiti Bust: The Birth of an Icon

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The history of the intrauterine device (IDU) , this plastic or copper contraption that brought birth control to the masses.

Birth Control: Emancipation or Forced Sterilisation?

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The parasol or beach umbrella is synonymous with summer beach holidays but it has not always been so.

The Parasol and Beach Culture

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The Lottery Ball and the Politics of Chance

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Paulin Ismard, a specialist in the political anthropology of ancient Greece, traces the genealogy of a ritual that founded Athenian democracy.

Ostraca: A Piece of Clay Means Exile

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Stone Age Axes - Clearing the Land

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

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When Food Meets Chemistry

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The object seems recent: its international standardisation is barely a century old, and yet questions of identification and control have never ceased to haunt the history of societies.

The Passport - A Paper Border

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The Suit: Uniform of the Modern Man

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The Mantle of Roger II of Sicily

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 In 1921 a mummy of a girl was uncovered dating from 1370 BCE offering an insight into life during the Bronze Age.  

The Egtved Girl

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The Beginning of the End

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Napoleon vs. Metternich

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The Birth of Christianity (1/10)

How long did it take for Jesus to become Jesus Christ, son of God? And did Jesus found the church?

Jesus

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Jesus and Islam

Why does Jesus occupy an exceptional place in the Qur'an?

The Crucifixion According to the Qur'an

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Re: The Taliban in Kabul

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Paris in the Belle Epoque

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Autor Solaris

Stanislaw Lem is Poland's most famous sci-fi writer who predicted smartphones and virtual reality decades in advance. 

Stanisław Lem

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25-year-old Sibel, rejected by her fellow villagers, relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest.

Sibel

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Can Rome become a modern metropolis while keeping hold of its glorious past?

Enchanting Rome

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The Bernina Express

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Arte Reportage

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