This portrait was painted in encaustic, a wax-based medium, on wood. Portraits such as this covered the face of an embalmed person wrapped as a mummy. Roman, about 300-325 CE. From a tomb at Rubaiyat...
Damaged Belgian Fort at Liege, 1914 Here we see the impact of German heavy artillery during the Siege of Liege (August 1914). One of the forts outside Liege has been destroyed by artillery fire, and the entrace stairway can now be seen exposed to the left.