EditorialKing Ashurbanipal's campaign against Elam (645 BCE). A town is taken by storm. Assyrian soldiers climb ladders, stones fly, the dead drop from the ramparts and the deportees are assembled on the right. Gypseous alabaster, from the palace in Niniveh, AO...
EditorialWarriors scaling walls with ladders. Capture of an Egyptian city. Ashurbanipal's campaign against Egypt (645 BCE). Stone bas-relief (7th BCE) from the palace in Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq) .
EditorialReliefs on the inner wall of the collapsed second pylon of the Ramesseum describe the battle of Kadesh against the Hittites. Ramses II claimed a decisive victory, as did the Hittites. Pharaoh's chariot joins in the fray. Soldiers with ladders storm a f...
EditorialThe Woolpack Inn, Thomas Rowlandson, 17561827, British, undated, Pen and red-brown and gray ink with wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, Sheet: 4 5/16 x 7 inches (11 x 17.8 cm), building, chimney (architectural element), ...
EditorialIndian Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico; view from the interior. The "Pueblo" or town, encloses a quadrangular area within which are the ruins of a church built under the direction of the Jesuit missionaries. The houses are built one above the other to the h...
EditorialIndian Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico; view from the interior. The "Pueblo" or town, encloses a quadrangular area within which are the ruins of a church built under the direction of the Jesuit missionaries. The houses are built one above the other to the h...
EditorialMarriage Good Wishes, Brush and watercolor on paper, Two ladders form a flower arbor over a path. Inscribed at top: 'The Ladder of Matrimony'. At top of ladder: 'Congratulation'; at left: Consideration, Dissimulation, Disapprobation, Provocation, Detes...
EditorialMarriage Good Wishes, Brush and watercolor on paper, Two ladders form a rose arbor over a path. Inscribed at top: 'Matrimony as it should be'. At top of ladder: 'Solemnization'; at left: 'Love increasing, care unceasing, to be pleasing, will secure Ear...
Editorialprinting block, Anonymous, between 1575-1624, carved, Wooden printing block for printing a clich? for the regulation on the branding of 1591. On the front a carved image of two ladders, which narrow slightly upwards. The left ladder is marked on the ri...