EditorialBrad Doe, left, was identified as John Ingram Brandenburg Jr. of Chicago and Charlene Doe was identified as Jenifer Noreen Denton, who went missing in 1988. The Newton County team is now focused on solving the case of Adam Doe. (Newton County Coroner's Office via The New York Times)
EditorialOttoman Empire. Greece, Thessaloniki. Arrival of the French and German inspectors entrusted with solving the murder of the consuls in Thessaloniki on May 1876. Mr. Robert, from the French embassy in Constantinople, and Mr. Gillet, German consul, were l...
EditorialPeople look on as President Donald Trump’s motorcade passes through Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialSidewalk tables in Milan are uncharacteristically empty due to concern about the coronavirus across Italy, where whole towns have been locked down, Feb. 24, 2020. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump meets with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France on Aug. 26, 2019. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialScale for Navigation, Wooden bowl and two documents. The scale is a flat wooden slat with a number of scale divisions on one side and a number of tables and two noniuses on the other. This scale was intended to replace the regular regional tables for s...
EditorialOttoman Empire. Greece, Thessaloniki. Arrival of the French and German inspectors entrusted with solving the murder of the consuls in Thessaloniki on May 1876. Mr. Robert, from the French embassy in Constantinople, and Mr. Gillet, German consul, were l...
EditorialVanga damii, Print, The Vangidae family (from vanga, Malagasy for the hook-billed vanga, Vanga curvirostris) comprises a group of often shrike-like medium-sized birds distributed from Asia to Africa, including the vangas of Madagascar to which the fami...
EditorialRhind Mathematical Papyrus. A number of documents have survived that allow us insight into the ancient Egyptians' approach to mathematics. This papyrus is the most extensive. It is not a theoretical treatise, but a list of practical problems encountere...
EditorialThree stoneware pots by Johann Friedrich Boettger. Before solving the secret of Chinese porcelain manufacture, Boettger produced an imitation of the Chinese I-hsing stoneware, often with a curious mixture of Chinese and European elements. 1710-1719.
EditorialSolving Irish trouble at the front'. 'In the attack on Wytschaete ridge, where Major Willie Redmond fell, Nationalists and Ulstermen fought side by side ...' A newspaper report of Irish solders during the first world war. Daily Sketch. London, 1917. S...
EditorialTwo planets. An Original Theory or new hypothesis of the Univer. H. Chapelle: London, 1750. Diagram showing two planets. Image taken from An Original Theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, founded upon the Laws of Nature, and solving by mathematica...
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: ** WARNING: Contains Graphic Content ** The Body Farm, where experts keep detailed records of the steps human bodies take in becoming skeletons.
EditorialRhind Mathematical Papyrus. A number of documents have survived that allow us insight into the ancient Egyptians' approach to mathematics. This papyrus is the most extensive. It is not a theoretical treatise, but a list of practical problems encountere...
EditorialThree stoneware pots by Johann Friedrich Boettger. Before solving the secret of Chinese porcelain manufacture, Boettger produced an imitation of the Chinese I-hsing stoneware, often with a curious mixture of Chinese and European elements. 1710-1719.