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Foot of a Homo habilis individual designated OH 8, found at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis and Mary Leakey, probably dating to around 1.8 million years ago. The bones show extensive damage caused by a crocodile – in fact, the whole foot...

An 1813 portrait by James Northcote of the engineer and inventor Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), most famous for the Thames Tunnel, completed in 1843. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Stone tool chopper belonging to the Oldowan tool industry (c. 2.6-1 million years ago). Oldowan tools overlap in terms of time with Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, and Homo erectus, as well as with later Australopithecines, and it is possible...

Skull of Homo habilis, displayed in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

Olduvai (or Oldupai) Gorge in Tanzania is a highly important palaeoanthropological site. Homo habilis, Paranthropus boisei, Homo erectus as well as our own Homo sapiens are known to have been present here. For Homo habilis, it is also the...

1827 cross-section diagrams by T. Blood of the Thames Tunnel, completed in 1843. (Science Museum, London)

Queen Fredegund rides into battle with her son, the boy king Chlothar II (r. 584-629) on her lap. Illustration from the manuscript Grand Chronicles of France. Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon.

King Chlothar II slays Bertoald, mayor of the palace of Burgundy, during the Battle of Ėtampes, December 604 CE. Illustration from the manuscript Grand Chronicle of France, 14th century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Bronze medallion depicting an imagined portrait of the Merovingian King Chlothar II (r. 584-629), by Jean Dassier (1676-1763). National Library of France, Paris.

An imagined portrait of the Merovingian king Chlothar II (r. 584-629), oil on canvas by Raymond Manvoisin, part of the Portraits of the Kings of France series commissioned by King Louis-Philippe I (r. 1830-1848), 1837. Palace of Versailles...