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Four mighty civilisations - Rome, Egypt, Japan's Samurai and the Aztecs. Their legends remain - now priceless artefacts | dHNfT2NOMFBjMl9vbUk

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00:00Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Aztecs of Mexico, and the Samurai of Japan.
00:24Four great civilizations, each a pinnacle of human ingenuity and achievement, each lasted
00:36for centuries.
00:40Their people thought they would endure forever, until suddenly, everything changed.
00:53These civilizations faced challenges that are all too familiar today.
01:04Climate catastrophe, pandemic, wars, challenges for which ancient societies had few solutions.
01:21But what if there was a place that had the answers to what went wrong?
01:34A place full of secrets and stories, a repository of memory stretching back through time.
01:47The British Museum, home to more than 8 million artifacts, is a record of how and why the greatest
01:56civilizations rose to power and then spectacularly fell.
02:03Its treasures are the human traces that survived disaster.
02:09But might they also hold lessons for our own future?
02:17Every civilization throughout history has had an expiry date.
02:21With great societies, the seeds of their destruction are sown within the society.
02:28They're already there.
02:30No civilization ever thinks it's going to fall.
02:35But the question is, what can we learn from the past?
02:40How do we learn from the past?
02:44Come around?
02:45How can we learn from love?
02:46How can we learn from putting native ecosystems lead that we learn from the past?
02:47How can we learn from the past?
02:49Why can we learn from the past?
02:50How can we learn from the past?
02:52Have the посiscernible, sweet embroidery...
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