Gallery

A colour image of military guns during World War One

First World War

The First World War in colour

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

First World War

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

(Copyright Punch Limited)

10 amazing Punch magazine sketches from 1859 to 1981

An Egyptian mummy receiving a CT scan

Looking inside ancient Egyptian mummies

A human skull from the Duckworth Collection at the University of Cambridge

Body parts: skulls, mummy heads, and bones from a plague pit

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First World War

In pictures: The sinking of the Lusitania

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First World War

In pictures: Manchester’s WWI innovation race

A printed Shakespeare folio

Shakespeare’s props

A poster showing an image from the history of drinking

The strange history of drinking

A triptych by Netherlandish artist, Hieronymus Bosch, depicting religious scenery.

16th-century fantasy, evil and human desire

The 11kg mask depicts an idealised portrait of the young king. The Egyptians thought that the flesh of gods was made of gold, and so fittingly used this metal to create the mask. The eyes were made of quartz.

Discovering Tutankhamun

Royal Collection Trust. (Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2013)

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

A Greek statue depicting a head and penis.

The mad, bad and over-sexed gods of Olympus

Chinese irregular cavalry and infantry from the north-western provinces move towards the front during the 1894–95 war

China’s wars

An illustration from the Book of Miracles

The Book of Miracles