Old Tibetan skull, allegedly 300 years old. Skulls were carved a long time ago to take the curse off a family or to guide the soul of a misled human being on the right path.
One of the many headresses worn by Marie Antoinette. Her most famous wig is probably the one she wore to honour the Belle Poule, a French frigate that won a key victory against the British in June 1778.
Lyuba is a female mammoth calf who died 41,800 years ago at the age of 30 to 35 days. Lyuba is believed to have suffocated by inhaling mud while bogged down in deep mud in the bed if a river her herd was crossing. Lyuba appears to have been healthy at the time of her death. By examining Lyuba's teeth researchers hope to gain insight into what caused Ice Age mammals, including mammoths, to become extinct at the end of the Pleistocene era, around 10,000 years ago.
Archaeologists explored a tomb near Thebes in 2005 and discovered an artificial big toe attached to the foot of a mummy. The fake body part could prove to be the earliest working prosthetic body part to date.
Early nineteenth century French vampire hunting kit. The specimens of Alex CF.
Marie Antoinette's last letter to her children, stained by tears.
The earliest evidence of ancient dentistry we have is an amazingly detailed dental work on a mummy from ancient Egypt that archaeologists have dated to 2000 BCE.
In 1836 a series of 17 tiny coffins, complete with tin dolls, were found in a hillside. The coffins were in various stages of decay, indicating that over the years someone had been coming to the spot and adding more coffins to the stash. No one knows who put them there or why.
Intricately carved molar
A hat, one of the thousands of articles recovered from RMS Titanic.
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