Pictures Dated 15th September 2007

The Mummy of Rameses II, Egypt, 1213 BC. Artist: Unknown

The Mummy of Rameses II, Egypt, 1213 BC. Rameses II is regarded as possibly the greatest Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. His reign lasted 66 years, from 1279 until 1213 BC. Rameses' mummy was discovered in a cache of mummies at Deir el-Bahri in 1881. It had been moved there from its original burial site in tomb KV5 in the Valley of the Kings. Today it is on display in the Egyptian Museum Cairo.

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The Cromwell family, 1899. Artist: Unknown

The Cromwell family, 1899. Oliver Cromwell, Robert Cromwell, Elizabeth Cromwell (sr) and Elizabeth Cromwell (jr). Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, 1899. Cromwell was a Member of Parliament at the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. As one of the judges at the trial of King Charles I in 1649, Cromwell signed the king's death warrant and became Lord Protector of England in 1653. He died in 1668 and was succeeded as Lord Protector by his son, Richard. Although Richard was not entirely without ability, he had no power base in either Parliament or the Army and was forced to resign in May 1659, bringing the Protectorate to an end. In the period immediately following his abdication the head of the army, George Monck, took power for less than a year, at which point Parliament restored Charles II as king. One of Charles' first acts was to exhume Cromwell's body from Westminster Abbey and hang it from the gallows at Tyburn; his head was set on a pole on top of Westminster Hall. From 'The Century Magazine, 1899.

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Bible scenes, late 13th century. Artist: Unknown

Bible scenes, late 13th century. The parable of the labourers in the vineyard, the mirace of the ten lepers, the episode of Zachaeus, and the mission of the two disciples to fetch the ass and her colt. These scenes are interpreted below as referring to the Last Judgement, the healing power of confession, the duty of leaving the world and turning to religion, and the contrast between the Jew and the Gentile. From the Bible Moralisee, produced in France in the late 13th century. Illustration from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, Miniatures, Borders, and Initials by George F Warner, series III, (British Museum, London, 1899).

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