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), ...
EditorialTo the description of the middle alps, Illustration of an alpine landscape with alpine huts, cattle pastures, stone bridge and ladders over the rocks from the 18th century, signed: Geyser (sc.), Pl. II, after p. 118, Geyser (sc.), Gottlieb Konrad Chris...
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...