EditorialRoman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4, siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey towe...
EditorialRoman siege engines: siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey tower Sambucae 6, and battering ram on chains Aries 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children...
EditorialPagoda of Zojoji Temple, Akabane (Zojoji-to, Akabane) From the Series One hundred views of Edo, Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 17971858, Woodblock print in colored ink on paper, Zojoji Temple was built by the founder of the Tokugawa dynasty, Ieyasu (1542-16...