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This is Lachish Letter I, a pottery ostracon with Hebrew inscription. This ostracon is probably a fragment of a wheel-made storage jar. The so-called "Lachish Letters" are documents consisting of potsherds inscribed in black ink (known...

A facsimile of an ostracon discovered at Samaria, dating to the 8th century BCE. The writing is ancient Hebrew. George Andrew Reisner. Harvard Excavations at Samaria, 1908-1910. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924.

A home assembled amplifier featured as the cover illustration of the magazine Electronics World, September 1959, Volume 62 Number 3.

A 1992 photograph of a drafter working at a cimputer and using Computer-aided design (CAD). CAD is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to...

Pottery Dining & Serving Vessels, 9th-6th Century BCE, Arad. Israel Museum

Regional, inter-regional and international trade was a common feature of the Roman world. A mix of state control and a free market approach ensured goods produced in one location could be exported far and wide. Cereals, wine and olive oil...

The achievements of the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE), often regarded by scholars and the ancient Chinese themselves as the golden era of Chinese culture, would have lasting effects on all who followed, particularly in the areas of government...

The legacy of the ancient Romans – from both the time of the Roman Republic (509-27 BCE) and the time of the Roman Empire (27 BCE - 476 CE) – exerted a significant influence on succeeding cultures and is still felt around the world in the...

The city of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) was founded by Roman emperor Constantine I in 324 CE and it acted as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire as it has later become known, for well over 1,000 years. Although...

The ancient Egyptian military is often imagined in modern films and other media as a heavily armed and disciplined fighting force equipped with powerful weapons. This depiction, however, is only true of the Egyptian army of the New Kingdom...