Look closely at this ancient Egyptian artefact and you’ll see engravings made by British soldiers when they won this in battle from the French – the legacy of its fraught arrival to the UK.

This podcast was produced by Jesse Lawson, with research from Marthe Van Der Wolf. Voice acting was from Antoine Morcos, Clement Geiger & Serena Salvadori, and sounds from BP or not BP, and Benboncan from freesound.org.

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