Discovery Collection (page 5)

Silver cup of Joseph found in Benjamins sack
Silver cup of Joseph found in his brother Benjamins sack - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 44.12. 1787

Portolan of Joan Martines (16th century). 1587. Map of the C
Portolan of Spanish cartographer Joan Martines (16th century). Majorcal school. 1587. Map of the Canary Islands and the west coast of Africa. Messina, Sicily. National Library. Madrid. Spain

Peru. Lima. Founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, 1535. Engraving 1850

Ecuador. San Francisco de Quito. Engraving, 1850. Color

Colombia. Bogota. Founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, 1538. Engraving, 1850. Color

America. Florida. 16th century. Ritual dedicated to the sun god. Sacrifice deer skin. Engraving, 1850. Color

Disembarkation of Columbus in America by Llorens Masdeu
Eduardo Llorens Masdeu (1837-1912). Spanish painter. Disembarkation of Columbus in America, 1880. Maritime Museum. Barcelona. Spain

UFO & OUTER SPACE
Found ! An ancient tomb - for cavemen or spacemen story tells of a strange 1938 archeological discovery on the China/Tibet border of tombs containing strange skeletons Date: 1979

Early Sumerian Sculpture
A double page from The Illustrated London News, 19 May 1934, entitled An Extraordinary Discovery of Early Sumerian Sculpture

Discovery of the Adams mammoth, 1799
Discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia. A local chief spotted the creature, encased in transparent ice, on the banks of the river Lena in 1799

French bank note, 50 Francs
French bank note, Banque de France, 50 Francs, issued on 19 May 1949. With a portrait of the French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877) on the front

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

Largo das Portas de Moura, Evora, Portugal
Largo das Portas de Moura - Fountain in the Moorish Maidens Gate Square in Evora, Portugal. A renaissance work of 1556, attributed to the architect Diogo de Torralva

Terra Nova birds report
Plate XIV from the Birds report by Low and Kinnear, taken from Volume IV of the British Anarctic (Terra Nova) Natural History Reports

Silk cotton tree at St. Thomas, West Indies
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Silk Cotton tree, St. Thomas, West Indies 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

H. M. S. Challenger, St. Thomas, West Indies 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Procellaria cinerea, grey petrel
Ff. 92. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated laria inexpectata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Phoebetria palpebrata, light-mantled albatross
Ff. 106. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Pelecanus pica and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Trachinotus carolinus, Florida pompano
Ff. 224. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Clinus superciliosus, super klipfish
Ff. 187. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Banyan tree, St. Thomas, West Indies 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Fuegian man, Native of Tierra del Fuego
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Moro Indian Woman, Cebu, Visayas, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Fuegian women, Natives of Tierra del Fuego
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Moro Indian, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Moro Indian Chief, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Market square, Iloilo, Panay, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Albino native woman, St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) was funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an

Mandinka people, West Africa
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Map of the McMurdo Sound region

Litoria aurea, golden bell frog
Plate 26 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826)

Cathedral destroyed by earthquake 1863, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Natives of St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) was funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an

View of Stanley from Pier, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Aztec Empire

A group of mice feeding in the desert
Mus condilor. Gould. A group of mice feeding in the desert. From: Narrative of an expedition into central Australia Date: 1849

RSS Discovery handed over to Sea Scouts
RSS Discovery handed over to HRH Duke of Kent, Commodore of Sea Scouts, by Mr Ormsby Gore, with Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell in attendance. 9 October 1937

Henry Hudson sails up the Hudson River
Henry Hudson (1570? - 1611?), English sea explorer and navigator, sailing the Half Moon discovers the Hudson River in September 1609

The British Antarctic Expedition: some officers of the Disco
Officers of the British Antarctic Expedition on board the Discovery. Front row, second from left is Captain Robert Falcon Scott and back row, fourth from right is Ernest Shackleton

Captain Scott returning from a shopping expedition in Norway
Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912), the famous Polar explorer, returning from Norway on the Wilson liner, Aaro, where he was purchasing sledges

Fw Herschel / Telescope
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomer discovering the planet Uranus in 1781, while his sister Caroline Lucretia takes notes

Christopher Columbus with Bernardo Buil (Fray Buil), a Catalan missionary monk who accompanied him on his second voyage across the Atlantic

Anna Nzinga of Angola makes peace with Portugal
Anna Nzinga, Princess of Angola, West Africa, makes peace with Portugal and converts to Christianity, renaming herself Dona Anna de Souza

Leicesters Roman remains excavated, 1936
Drawing by Alan Sorrell of excavations in progress in the city of Leicester in 1936 led by Kathleen Kenyon. The excavated Roman remains were initially thought by Kenyon to be a Roman forum

Dr. Broom discovers adult Australopithecus cranium, 1936
An important discovery in South Africa: the brain-cast and parts of the skull of an anthropoid ape with human characteristics. Dr

Christopher Columbus statue, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Christopher Columbus statue, Plaza Colon, San Juan, Puerto Rico, North Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1910

Sphere artist, Donald Macpherson at Luxor, 1924
Donald Macpherson, special artist for The Sphere, pictured at Luxor where he had been following the work in Tutankhamens tomb

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