EditorialFor seven days and seven nights the conflict between the two rages. Rāma’s arrows cut off each of Rāva?a's heads in turn, only to see them grow again, and Rāma is despairing of ever finding a weapon that will finish the demon forever. Mātali, h...
EditorialMeketre papyrus, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1975 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280,), 1919?20, Papyrus, ink, H. 26 cm (10 1/4 in.), W. 16 cm (6 5/16 in.), This letter was written by Netjeriuhem to...
EditorialFor seven days and seven nights the conflict between the two rages. Rāma’s arrows cut off each of Rāva?a's heads in turn, only to see them grow again, and Rāma is despairing of ever finding a weapon that will finish the demon forever. Mātali, h...
EditorialFor seven days and seven nights the conflict between the two rages. Rāma’s arrows cut off each of Rāva?a's heads in turn, only to see them grow again, and Rāma is despairing of ever finding a weapon that will finish the demon forever. Mātali, h...
EditorialIlluminated initial 'M'(ultum) with red and white roses, at the beginning of John Killingworth's Planetary Tables. The almanac tables of John Killingworth provided formulae for calculating the phases of the moon and movement of the sun, and according t...
EditorialMeketre papyrus, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1975 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280,), 1919?20, Papyrus, ink, H. 26 cm (10 1/4 in.), W. 16 cm (6 5/16 in.), This letter was written by Netjeriuhem to...
EditorialFormulae honestae vitae. Cicero, La Vielesse. L'Amitie. Three philosophical discourses translated from Latin to French. Last quarter 15th, parchment 29,5 x 20 cm. Right: Cato with Scipio and Lelius; left: Cicero,writing his treatise on Old Age. Fol.19.