EditorialGhostwriters write books in someone else’s voice — without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires great technical skill and a flexible ego. (Kathleen Fu/The New York Times)
EditorialZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s Asian elephants are contributing to global conservation efforts - simply by producing a ready supply of fresh dung. Zookeepers at the UK’s largest Zoo are collecting elephant dung samples to help conservationists across Asia and
EditorialCeiling paper, Machine-printed paper, ungrounded, liquid mica, Grid or trellis pattern formed with double rows of dashed lines, has the appearance of a sewn stitch. Cloverleaf design at intersections and stylized floral motif in center of each void. Pr...
EditorialVanity Fair: Policemen; 'Fingerprints', Edward Richard Henry, October 5, 1905, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 18511922, British, 1905, Chromolithograph.
EditorialEarthen lamp with decorated mirror. Loeschcke type IV, shoulder form II or IV. White earth with brown-black paint. Two-piece ear turned on separately. Tuit is missing for half. Fill hole at the far right of the middle. Stand surface. Clear fingerprints...
EditorialLoose shards belonging to an earthenware jug. The fragments show a flat bottom, a sloping wall, a flat handle and a narrow and concave neck with a rounded edge. Manufactured on the wheel. The clay is light brown in color, has a medium and hard texture ...
EditorialRound netverzwaarderder with hole and fingerprints. Crack in the edge., Netverzwaarderder, pottery, h: 2.6 cm, diam: 14.4 cm, vmec 750-900 AD, Netherlands, Friesland, unknown, unknown.
EditorialSpherical pot of Mayen earthenware with curved edge and lenticular bottom. Scattered with fairly large pieces of lime (?). Light yellow to reddish in color. Fingerprints are visible locally. A small hole in the abdomen is the only damage. Undecorated.,...
EditorialUrn of coarse baking, of very peculiar form, cylinder shape with strongly pinched neck. Maybe fingerprints at the top of the neck. Old gluing and additions, part of the edge is missing, 9 separate shards. Contains cremated residues, urn, earthenware, h...
EditorialBeak pot of earthenware with 1 ear and spout, decorated with polishing. The jar has a flat slightly convex finished bottom. The wall slopes diagonally outwards and turns into a wide round belly. The wall tilts in above the belly. The concave neck turns...
EditorialLarge weaving weight of baked clay. Irregularly conical shape. The top is round. A horizontal round bore is provided below the top (diameter: 1.8-1.9 cm). The underside is flattened around. Made by hand. The clay is beige and light orange in color, has...
EditorialUrn of dark gray earthenware. Type Brunsting, Hees, p. 142: 1st (with two fingerprints next to each other on the shoulder). Many glues and additions, the glue on the inside is peeling off, urn, earthenware, h: 24 cm, diam: 26.5 cm, roman, Netherlands, ...
EditorialEarthen lamp with decorated mirror. Loeschcke type IV, shoulder form II or IV. White earth with brown-black paint. Two-piece ear turned on separately. Tuit is missing for half. Fill hole at the far right of the middle. Stand surface. Clear fingerprints...
EditorialDetective Vincent Buccigrossi dusts for fingerprints while investigating the theft of the Star of India sapphire, Star Ruby of Burma and other jewels from New York’s Museum of Natural History, Oct. 30, 1964. (Arthur Brower/The New York Times)
EditorialCeramic imitation of bronze roller with two kilted figures, Ur III?Isin-Larsa, ca. 2100?1750 B.C., Mesopotamia or Syria, Ceramic, H. 8.8 cm x W. 7.5 cm x D. 1.4 cm, Ceramics-Reliefs, This terracotta relief was produced by pressing wet clay into an inwa...