Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects

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Four billion years in the palm of your hand, Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects is the story of our planet as you’ve never seen it before. The Mini Museum is a collection of treasures gathered from across space and time shared by tens of thousands of people in more than 120 countries. Each item in the collection is a story connected to a childhood dream of sharing all the wonders the universe has to offer while bringing all of us closer together. In this book, the Mini Museum team shares the stories of real objects that have shaped our very existence across billions of years of history. Beginning with the birth of our solar system and the very building blocks of life, you’ll explore our dynamic planet, from the constant shifting of continents to dramatic and violent upheavals, which have changed the course of all life again and again. You'll visit mighty civilizations with cultures spanning millennia, as well as modern symbols of creativity and innovation, and the march of humanity as we reach toward the stars. Every item is photographed and presented in detail. There are also wild tales of adventure as the crew travels the world and prepares one of the most complex collections ever assembled. Cover Contents Introduction EARTH BEFORE HUMANS Extraterrestrial Amino Acids Space Gems Asteroid Belt Fragment Lunar Highlands Oldest Earth Martian Rock + Atmosphere Earliest Life Great Oxygenation Event Crinoid World's Oldest River Copper Crystals Dimetrodon Jurassic Tree Japanese Star Sands The Great Dying Tethys Ocean Pangaea Laurasia Cycad Insect in Amber The Age of Dinosaurs K-Pg Boundary + Deccan Traps Palm Tree from Antarctica Petrified Lightning Libyan Desert Glass Hell Pig Jaw Megalodon Tooth Moldavite THE ANCIENT & EARLY MODERN WORLD Neanderthal Hand Axe La Brea Tar Pits Extinct Megafauna Red Ochre Teff Early Writing Stonehenge Bronze Age Dagger The Rise of Civilization Mummy Beads Roman Bath Oasisamerica Islamic Carpet Elephant Bird Viking Axe Knight’s Sword Samurai Sword Lava from Mt. Fuji Gems Venice Street Brick Medieval Chainmail Marshallese Stick Map Aztec Obsidian Tool Dracula Soil Wootz Steel Shipwrecked Pieces of Eight THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Railroad Spike Gold Nugget US Presidents The History of Flight Monet Flower First Transatlantic Cable San Andreas Fault Meteor Strikes Sony Walkman Titanic Alcatraz Lusitania Hollywood Sign Hindenburg Golden Gate Bridge Enigma Machine Winston Churchill Manhattan Project Trinitite Fordite Mt. Everest Soviet Spy Button Waikiki London Bridge SR-71 Blackbird The Beatles Pelé Muhammad Ali Concorde Spaceflight First Supercomputer Star Wars Charles & Diana Amazon River Berlin Wall Steve Jobs Olympic Torch 1st Generation iPhone The Human Body Creating Your Own Collection About the Mini Museum Sources Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z Acknowledgments