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Vannevar Bush seated at a desk. This portrait is credited to "OEM Defense", the Office for Emergency Management (part of the United States Federal Government) during World War II; it was probably taken some time between 1940 and 1944.

The Narmer Palette, also known as the Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archeological find, dating from about the 31st century BC, containing some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. It…

Chinese and Egyptian stone wall carving examples

A contemporary photograph of an antique stone chalkboard from a woodworkers' workshop and store website

A scroll that can be opened vertically. The characters of a seemingly foreign language are written on it.

The front page of The New York Time's article on humankind's first steps on the moon

writing manuscript dated from the third or fourth century AD

Photo of a wall carving depicting the Hebrew ten commandments

This issue features open-to-order variant covers that will ship in opaque polybags.

Postcard of Storer College, a historically black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia