EditorialThe potter Constantin Biscu works at a kick wheel on which he said he can make up to 300 pieces a day, in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialThe potter Constantin Biscu works at a kick wheel on which he said he can make up to 300 pieces a day, in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialThe potter Constantin Biscu works at a kick wheel on which he said he can make up to 300 pieces a day, in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialIndia: Statue of erstwhile merchant and leader of the Jewish community in Bombay, David Sassoon (October 1792 – November 7, 1864), Sassoon Library, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai
EditorialNakagawaguchi (Mouth of Nakagawa River) from the Series One Hundred Views of Edo, Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 17971858, Woodblock print in colored ink on paper, This is a lively depiction of daily life on the traditional highway of Edo. In the foreground...
EditorialMaker: Edward Winslow, American, 16691753, Trencher?Salt, Silver, Height: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm), In the late seventeenth century, salts became fixtures on the tables of well-to-do colonists. Salts took two forms: tall standing salts with knops surrounding...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: commodity account, Ebabbar archive, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Date ca. 558 B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba), Babylonian, Clay, 2.12 x 1.37 x .73 in. (5.38 x 3.48 x 1.85 cm), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialCuneiform tablet: account of commodity disbursements to prebendaries, Ebabbar archive, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Date ca. 7th6th century B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba), Babylonian, Clay, 1.61 x 2.13 x .87 in. (4.1 x 5...
EditorialGary Gensler, former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., April 20, 2018. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)