EditorialLeaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless.
EditorialThe Launching of the Ship.' Part one. 'The sail could not be hoisted in the ship-yard, even with the roof off, so the Captain ordered the Ship to be drawn up, and it poised on the point of the dome like a sunlit cloud - which in fact, the dull-witted p...
EditorialProclamation by the Queen to the People of India. In the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion (1857–58), the British Parliament passed the Government of India Act, transferring the rights and administrative authority of the East India Company to the Bri...
EditorialProclamation by the Queen to the People of India. In the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion (1857–58), the British Parliament passed the Government of India Act, transferring the rights and administrative authority of the East India Company to the Bri...
EditorialLeaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless.
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Demetrios Poliorketes, Hellenistic, 300?294 BC, Silver, Diameter: 1 ? 1/8 in., 0.6oz. (2.6 ? 0.3 cm, 16.68g), Coins, Nike with trumpet on ship's prow/Poseidon with his trident. Salamis, Cyprus. Mint of Salamis. Heralded as 'the Be...