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  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt / by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer ... edited by Roy L. Moodie.
  • Bones and mummified remains of an ibis. Etching by R. Pollard after V. Denon.
  • Corpses standing against the walls of catacombs at Guanajuato, Mexico. Process print after C.C. Pierce & Co.
  • Profile view of a mummified male head
  • Pott'sche Krankheit an einer ägyptischen Mumie aus der Zeit der 21 Dynastie (um 1000 v. chr.) / Grafton Elliot Smith und Marc Armand Ruffer.
  • Limestone jackal-headed canopic jar, used to house removed stomach, liver, lungs and intestines, each organ assigned to a different jar, from a mummified Egyptian body. This jar represents Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian of the stomach
  • Limestone human headed canopic jar
  • Limestone human-headed canopic jar, used to house removed stomach, liver, lungs and intestines, each organ assigned to a different jar, from a mummified Egyptian body. This jar represent Imsety, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian for the liver.
  • Limestone human-headed canopic jar, used to house removed stomach, liver, lungs and intestines, each organ assigned to a different jar, from a mummified Egyptian body. This jar represent Imsety, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian for the liver.
  • Limestone jackal-headed canopic jar, used to house removed stomach, liver, lungs and intestines, each organ assigned to a different jar, from a mummified Egyptian body. This jar represents Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian of the stomach
  • Extraordinary Peruvian relic : just arrived and now exhibiting at the late Mr. Youngs office High St. Rochester : the entire body of a Peruvian woman, perfect as when in life ; supposed to have been buried alive at the remote period of 500 years ago.
  • The mummified body of the Emperor Charles V in the Escorial. Photograph of a painting by V. Palmaroli y González.
  • The British Museum: the Egyptian Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.
  • Memphis, Egypt: English travellers trapped in catacombs find the bodies of two Italian men who had previously been trapped there, and had starved to death: they fire their pistols at six ghostly figures; Arabs steal their horses. Etching with engraving by E. Kirkall, 1709.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.
  • The desiccated corpse of a boy, about twelve years old, found in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate old Church in 1742. Coloured etching by H. Rogers, ca. 1779.
  • The desiccated corpse of a boy, about twelve years old, found in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate old Church in 1742. Coloured etching by H. Rogers, ca. 178-.
  • A psychologist asking a large, aggressive looking man to talk about his mother. Reproduction after a drawing by F. Reynolds, 1938.
  • A walking man has his head bitten off by a colossal red mouth. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • A walking man has his head bitten off by a colossal red mouth. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • British prisoners of war in smart attire performing a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 1916-1917.
  • British prisoners of war in smart attire performing a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 1916-1917.