One of the current special exhibitions at the British Museum, and an excellent way to spend a couple of hours.
German history is fascinating, and of course the history of the German people goes back hundreds of years before the formation of the German nation.
One thing I found interesting was how the German language evolved - I had never realised that it was Luther's desire to produce a Bible that all Germans could read that lead him to create a German language which was capable to expressing all the ideas in the Bible, as many of the local dialects were not. His German language was a hybrid of the dialects, supplemented by new words to express new ideas, and formed the basis of the German language that we know today.
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