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Skeleton of 18th-Century Philosopher Jeremy Bentham Will Travel to the Metropolitan Museum

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 7, 2017December 7, 2017

The auto-icon of 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham will travel from London to New York for an exhibition at the Met Breuer that explores the human body.

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Matching the Smells of Musty Manuscripts with Chemical Compounds

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 26, 2017February 3, 2023

Researchers at University College London studied the scents of old books to better understand how to identify and protect “heritage smells.”

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The Webcam of an 18th-Century Philosopher’s Skeleton

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 25, 2016March 25, 2016

LONDON — Presiding over a busy University College London corridor is a man who’s been dead for over 180 years.

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A 5,000-Year-Old Linen Dress Is the World’s Oldest Woven Garment

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 29, 2016February 29, 2016

An over-5,000-year-old linen dress was recently confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment.

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Painting a Kangaroo When You’ve Never Seen One

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 27, 2015May 31, 2015

To show animals of distant locales to the public in centuries before photography, artists were sometimes enlisted to recreate exotic fauna through secondhand descriptions or some scrap of skin or skeleton.

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