EditorialPeople displaced by conflict queue to fill up water from mobile cistern trucks near their tent shelters in Al-Bureij, Al-Bureij, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - 10 Nov 2024
EditorialFather Theophilus inside the Saint Helena cistern in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a tangled knot of several chapels, monasteries and shrines, in Jerusalem on Aug. 22, 2022. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialFather Theophilus inside the Saint Helena cistern in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a tangled knot of several chapels, monasteries and shrines, in Jerusalem on Aug. 22, 2022. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialKing David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem. Antwerp Mannerist (Master of the Antwerp Adoration Group); Netherlandish. Date: 1505-1525. Dimensions: 73.5 ? 27.5 cm (28 7/8 ? 10 7/8 in.) Image: 72.7 ? 26.8 cm (28 5/8 ? 10 9/16 in.). Oil on panel...
EditorialItaly. Pompeii. Structure over the water well. Each building had its private cistern collected rain water falling on the surrounding roof. Then it was conducted to a tank (impluvium). Campania.