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Detail from a Sydney Paget illustration to ‘The Final Problem’ which appeared in The Strand Magazine in December, 1893....
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Harry Burton, Howard Carter with Innermost Coffin of Tutankhamun, 1922 (Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute, University of Oxford)...
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Odysseus and his crew escape the cyclops, as painted by Arnold Böcklin in 1896. Wikimedia By Dr. Chris...
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By Dr. Tom Stafford / 10.03.2016 Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science University of Sheffield A review called ‘The...
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Illustration from Schwab, Gustav: “Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums” (1882) By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor...
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Photo courtesy of PREDICT/Mike Cranfield Two ambitious projects aim to understand when and how the next human...