EditorialWoman makes a sand painting, A seated woman (actor Segawa Kikunoj? V (1802-32) in an unknown woman role), makes a sand painting on a sheet of lacquerware. Next to the painting are two spoons, a wooden spatula and a paint box on the far left. The painti...
EditorialStamp with address of Dr. W. Drees in The Hague, Mechanical stamp with a trade with which one can print the address of Drees, Beeklaan 502, The Hague, on paper. Enamelled in black turning to golden yellow. Drees has used the stamp from 1945 onwards, Wi...
EditorialDress with Hobble Skirt Dress with staggered skirt, After 1908 the straight line of 'Style Directoire' and 'Style Empire' introduced by Paul Poiret continued in Dutch fashion. A right silhouette was already known in a modest circle here before that tim...
EditorialThe eighth hour of the Anduat (Book of the Underworld). The ship of Ra floats through the Underworld, preceded by the snake Mechen, which guards the re-birth of the sungod Ra from the fifth hour onwards. Pen on papyrus (12th-9th BCE), New Kingdom, Egypt.
EditorialMajor Fuller Potter, Military intelligence. He was for a time supervisor of the bomb squad of the New York police department, around 1914 onwards. Throttled! The detection of the German and anarchist bomb plotters ... as told to Paul Merrick Hollister ...
EditorialGranada, Andalusia, Spain. The Corral del Carbon (Corral of Coal). View of the facade, built with a large horseshoe arch. Architectural detail. It is one of the most important buildings preserved from Granada's Nasrid period. It has had many uses throu...
EditorialPendant with the Coronation of the Virgin, early 15th century, North French or Netherlandish, Ivory mounted behind rock crystal in gold mount, Overall: 1 3/8 x 13/16 x 1/4 in. (3.5 x 2.1 x 0.7 cm), Ivories, Delicate openwork carvings such as this penda...
EditorialGranada, Andalusia, Spain. The Corral del Carbon (Corral of Coal). View of the facade, built with a large horseshoe arch. Architectural detail. It is one of the most important buildings preserved from Granada's Nasrid period. It has had many uses throu...
EditorialSyria. Qal'at Ja'bar. Castle on the left bank of Lake Assad. The current structures are primarily the work of Nur ad-Din Zangi, who rebuilt the castle from 1168 onwards. Ar-Raqqah Governorate.
EditorialLady Hamilton as Circe circa 1782 Canvas; 533 x 495 mm N05591 Emma Hart (1765-1815), better known in her later roles as Lady Hamilton and mistress of Admiral Lord Nelson, became Romney's favourite model from about 1782 onwards. Although Romn...
EditorialThe Royal Scribe. Painted limestone sculpture; Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty. This statue presents the ideal image of a perfect official. The position of scribe was one of the most honoured in ancient Egypt, therefore many tomb owners from t...
EditorialPetra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-and spice trade across the deserts. Ed-Dir, Petra's largest monument, is on a plateau 800 steps above the city. From the 4th century onwards it w...
EditorialPetra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-and spice trade across the deserts. ed-Dir, Petra's largest monument, is on a plateau 800 steps above the city. From the 4th century onwards it w...
EditorialThe " City of David" shows archaeological remains of 14th centuries of settlement. Human habitations were built on that slope from 1800 BCE onwards; in the 13th and 14th compartment walls were erected to make terraces for easier construction.
EditorialThe " City of David" shows archaeological remains of 14 centuries of settlement. Human habitations were built on that slope from 1800 BCE onwards; in the 13th and 14th BCE, compartment walls were erected to make terraces for easier construction.
EditorialThe eighth hour of the Anduat (Book of the Underworld). The ship of Ra floats through the Underworld, preceded by the snake Mechen, which guards the re-birth of the sungod Ra from the fifth hour onwards. Pen on papyrus (12th-9th BCE), New Kingdom, Egypt.
EditorialSphinx with proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, from Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai, Middle Kingdom, around 1800 BCE. The semi-precious stone turquoise was extracted here from the Middle Kingdom onwards. Hathor, the goddess associated with turquoise, is named in th...