Profiles from the Past

Two impressions of Axexander the Great in the British Museum. The statue in the background was sculpted while this Greek general was alive. The figure in the foreground was produced several hundred years later and perhaps reflects a more romantic view.

A modern reconstruction of a Viking-era helmet that may have been worn by royalty.

Ceremonial armour worn by King Charles I, now on display in the Tower of London.

Among artifacts at Hadrian's Wall, Bob Bear discovered startling evidence that one of his distant relatives may have once been a prominent teddy bear of ancient Rome.