EditorialPerforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 1...
EditorialJ.M.W. Turner’s “Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steam Boats of Shoal Water” (1840), hangs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on April 3, 2022. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
EditorialFilipino fisherman aboard a boat near Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef in the South China Sea that China seized from the Philippines in 2012, off the coast of the Philippines.
EditorialPreliminary sketch showing the positions of Davis's South Shoal and other dangers recently discovered by the Coast Survey and the soundings on the Old South Shoal, Bass Rip, Old Man, Pochinck Rip, &c., cartographic, Maps, 1852, Davis, Charles Henry, 18...
EditorialJoseph Mallord William Turner, English, 17751851, Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water, 1840, Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 48 1/8 in. (92.1 x 122.2 cm).
EditorialA Chinese Coast Guard ship near the Scarborough Shoal, a reef in the South China Sea claimed by both China and the Philippines, on June 18, 2016. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Scarborough Shoal, which was previously administered by the Philippines before being claimed by China in 2012, in the South China Sea. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)
EditorialPerforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 1...
EditorialPerforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 1...
EditorialPerforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 1...