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Native North American burial ground, showing the dead on raised platforms, 1876
 
Henry Ward Beecher, American Congregational minister and writer
 
Calvin, Luther and the Pope fighting each other, published 1600
 
Morgan le Fay casts spell on Merlin. Artist: Henry Ryland
 
Pan playing his pipes, Wood engraving, London, 1862. Artist: Frederic Leighton
 
Interior of the Crystal Palace during the International Exhibition, 1862
 
Opening of the International Exhibition, 1862
 
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605
 
Arrest of Guy Fawkes in cellars of Parliament, 1605 (19th century)
 
William Parker (Lord Monteagle), receiving letter of warning of the plot, 1605
 
Torture and murder of Christian nuns and priests during the Boxer rising in China, 1891
 
Baptism of the Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Nicholas II of Russia, 1897
 
Russian Orthodox priests performing ceremony of naming the yacht of Grand Duke Alexis, 1891
 
Charles George Gordon ('Chinese Gordon'), 1885. Creator: Unknown
 
Peter the Hermit presenting Urban II with petition on return from pilgrimage to Holy Land 1094
 
God the Father, Anonymous Flemish ivory, 1400-1425
 
South gate (torana) architraves of the Great Stupa, Sanchi, India, 75-50 BC
 
Side wall of the chariot, Temple of the Sun, Konarak, India, 13th century
 
Jain cosmos, Indian
 
Five-headed bust of Shiva, Mid 10th century
 
Relief showing scene from a sutra, Barabudur, Java, c750-850
 
Interior of Mughal Mosque, Delhi, India
 
Taj Maha, Agra, India, 17th century
 
Marble carving of formalised lily, Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 17th century
 
Reclining Buddha, Gal Vihare, Sri Lanka
 
Stupa, Buddhist shrine, Abeygyriya, Sri Lanka
 
Medal showing Henry Hudson ascending the Hudson River to Albany in 1609
 
Six Chakras representing the plexuses of the human body, Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, c1850
 
Stone head of Buddha, Gupta, India, 5th century
 
Pope Leo XIII receiving the last rites on his deathbed, 1903
 
Stephen William Hawking (b.1942), British theoretical physicist
 
Dr Faustus (1488-1541) conjuring up Mephistopheles
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist and scientist, c1860
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist and scientist, c1830
 
Hamlet seeing his father's ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. Artist: Robert Dudley
 
Desiderus Erasmus using writing slope (1465-1536), Dutch humanist and scholar
 
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian neurologist
 
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian neurologist
 
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychoanalyst
 
American Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
 
Pythagoras (c560 - 480 BC), Greek philosopher and scientist
 
Pythagoras (560-480 BC), Greek philosopher and scientist, demonstrating mathematical relationships
 
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician
 
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician
 
The storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russian Revolution, October 1917
 
Plate showing muscles and contents of the abdomem, 1648. Artist: Pietro Berrettino
 
The second plate of the muscles, from Book II of De humani corporis fabrica, 1543. Artist: Andreas Vesalius
 
Star of David in stained glass church window, Barcelona, Spain
 
Reconstruction of Roman reaping cart, as described by Pliny, Engraving, 1860
 
Reconstruction of reaping machine used in Gaul in Ancient Roman times, as described by Pliny, c1890
 
Twin Archimedean screws used to raise water, engraving, 1719. Artist: Gaspard Grollier de Serviere
 
Archimedean Screws for raising water from one level to another, 1805
 
Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), Swiss Protestant Reformation divine
 
George Canning (1770-1827), English statesman and Primeminister from 1827
 
Galileo's observation of sunspots, 1613. Artist: Galileo Galilei
 
Galileo's observation of sunspots, 1613. Artist: Galileo Galilei
 
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399)
 
Illustration for Jack and Jill went up the hill Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Artist: Catherine Greenaway
 
Illustration for Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep Kate Greenaway. Artist: Catherine Greenaway
 
Illustration for Goosey, goosey gander, where shall I wander? Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Artist: Catherine Greenaway