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Can you imagine getting caught in this man trap? Ouch! If you stood on one, the sharp metal teeth would spring up and...
The Pekinese is the dog of Chinese Emperors. They were bred with bowed legs making them unable to stray far from the...
This is not your typical mask. It towers over people at an enormous 14foot high and 7.5 foot wide. It is constructed...
This is a Dastar Bungga, meaning ‘towering fortress’. These pointed turbans of wound silk were worn by the warri...
This is a very strange picture - why is that man examining their heads? And why are they in a room full of skulls?The...
Did you know horses have been helping humans in warfare for more than 6,000 years?Knights on horses (cavalry) were us...
If you have visited the National Maritime Museum in London, you might have seen this Ship in a Bottle on your way in...
What’s on the menu? Well if you were on board Sir John Franklin's last expedition between 1845-48, probably this! ...
Mary Anning is a famous dinosaur discoverer who ‘sold sea shells by the sea shore’. She wrote this letter describ...
This is an illustration from the famous science fiction book The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. It was written in ...
Swimming costumes have changed a lot over the years. Do you think you would ever wear something like this? Find out m...
This massive skeleton is quite something! Just imagine what the Giant Deer stag would have looked like when it was al...
Nature has produced some very unusual creatures. This illustration from the Wellcome Collection shows you all sorts o...
This helmet is only one of five of its kind found in the UK. Experts think that it could have originally belonged to ...
This marvellous mosaic was decoration for a rich Roman's floor. The mosaic shows a famous scene from Greek and Roman ...
What a fearsome looking object! Look closely at the carved dagger. At the top of the blade there is a ‘Makara’, ...
