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  View of a table top of ancient Roman marbles, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, England   Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

This ancient Roman table top is made from 160 different types of marble excavated from tombs along the Appian Way.

 

 

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  View of a bowl carved from a single piece of marble, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, England   Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

A bowl carved from a single piece of material.

 

 

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  Photograph of the Mammal Gallery, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, England   Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

One of the mammal galleries whose major exhibit is a full-sized replica of a Blue Whale together with a skeleton of a Blue Whale suspended above it. There are other large mammals here as you may have noticed.

 

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  Photograph of the skeleton of a Black right whale, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, England   Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

This is the skeleton of a Black Right Whale. Among the skeletons displayed in this gallery are those of pre-historic elephants.

 

 

 

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