(Named after the Nigerian village where they were first unearthed by tin miners in 1928, Nok pieces are 1,500 to 2,000 years old, among the most ancient African sculpture outside Egypt).
For Churchill, this apotheosis came in 1940; for Tony Blair, it will come when Iraq is successfully invaded and hundreds of weapons of mass destruction are unearthed from where they have been hidden by Saddam's henchmen.
Large chunks of what was unearthed were carted off to European museums and private collections, where they began to work their spell on artists, designers and architects as well as on the kings and aristocrats who employed them.
After leaving C-Squat, the group made stops at a squat on East Seventh Street and two community gardens before ending at Bullet Space, a squatter building on East Third Street, where they looked at a display of bottles, clay pipes and coins believed to date to the 1800s and unearthed in a backyard dig two years ago.
The name Neanderthal (or Neandertal) derives from the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany, where quarrymen unearthed portions of a human skeleton from a cave in 1856.
The situation is similar to the first Archaeopteryx fossil that was discovered in 1861, not far from the Messel pit where Ida was unearthed.
That makes him pretty different from Lloyd Blankfein [boss of Goldman Sachs]." There is a memorable moment in the film where Gibney has unearthed footage of the Zen monk recalling how Jobs first came to him aged 18 and confessed to him that he felt chosen, enlightened.
The dinosaur dwelled in what is now southeast Wyoming, where it was unearthed in 1993.
And if you're going to do an exhibition about the 'treasures of the Natural History Museum' then you kind of have to include this fossil because it really is a treasure". Purchased in 1863 for £700 from Germany, where it was unearthed, the fossil was kept initially at the British Museum before being moved to the NHM when it opened in 1881.
