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The first printed Christmas card, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole (1808-1882) and drawn by John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903) in 1843. One thousand copies of the card were printed. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Original source note...

Broken relief showing the First Sermon of the Buddha, 2nd–3rd century CE. The Buddha is depicted turning the Wheel of Law, with attendants and deer also visible. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

Interior wall of a house in Pella, Macedonia with coloured plaster in the First Pompeian Style, 2nd century BCE.

An 1888 oil on canvas, First Spring Flowers, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Back in France after his visit to the Caribbean, the artist has returned to a more impressionist palette and style but uses his...

The first shard is found and we're scratching off the plaster.

The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert by John Lee.

The first meeting of Washington and Lafayette, Philadelphia, 3 Aug 1777, lithograph, published by Currier & Ives, c. 1876. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler, the second wife of US President John Tyler, c. 1850-60. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

A replica of the first jail built in Kentucky where the Harpe brothers were briefly held before they escaped. The historical reconstruction of the jail was done by one Isaac Hite and is located in Constitution Square State Historic Site in...

This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube, monitor Cern 57503) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first web server on the World Wide Web. It is shown here as displayed in 2005 at Microcosm, the public science museum at CERN where Berners-Lee was...