Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum selected hundred objects from the museum and discussed each object in a separate chapter of a book with the above title.“Telling history through things is what museums are for.” According to the preface, the book is based on a series of programs on BBC radio broadcasted in 2010. The director of the program asked for selection of hundred objects that would have been collected to represent the earliest time in history all the way to present day (2010). The objects were supposed to be artistic like most of the objects in a museum, while dealing with everyday life that reflect many aspects of human experience. The objects were also supposed to have been collected from many different parts of the world, as varied in range as possible. Neil MacGregor followed the same idea in the book. He divided his book into twenty parts, each part discussing a separate subject matter through five objects, each object representing a chapter. These book, from beginning to the end, take us also through a time period, from two million years ago to two years ago. He tries to cover a variety of subjects which not only present human endeavor, strife, and progress through time, but also societies in different parts of the world and in selected periods. For someone who is interested in history, the slices of time selected are like traveling through time and stopping in certain period and at certain locations.
