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), ...