EditorialMedieval Art Daghestan area. Fragment of architectural decoration of buildings. Horsemen fighting. Shale, carving. Kubachi village, Dagestan, Russia. 14th-early 15th century. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialStatuette of the god Osiris. Late Period. 26th dynasty. 664-525 BC. Shale and gold. Depicted standing, with mummified body and wearing the Atef Crown. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.
EditorialWith the acquisition of Concho Resources, ConocoPhillips will become a major player in the world’s most lucrative shale field, the Permian Basin. (Joel Angel Juarez/The New York Times)
EditorialMedieval Art Daghestan area. Fragment of architectural decoration of buildings. Shale, carving. Kubachi village, Dagestan, Russia. 14th-early 15th century. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialA fracking site owned by EQT, a pioneer in Marcellus Shale gas extraction, near Rose Friend’s farmhouse in Marianna, Pa., on March 11, 2020. (Ross Mantle/The New York Times)
EditorialView of Milton Volunteer Fire Brigade at Brisbane, Australia, John Frederick Shale (Australian, 1855 - 1924), about 1915, Gelatin silver print.
EditorialTHE BURNING WELL NEAR THE FEATHERSTONE STATION IN THE VICINITY OF PONTEFRACT. In boring for coal, the sinkers penetrated a bed of shale at a depth of about 120 feet, upon which the water previously rising through the borehole was suddenly ejected like ...
EditorialTotem Pole Model, ca. 1890, Canada, British Columbia, Haida, Argillite, H. 16 1/4 x W. 3 1/4 in. (41.3 x 8.3 cm), Stone-Sculpture, Charles Edenshaw, Model totem poles began to be carved in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-1860s, when full-sized totem p...
Editorial? ????, Inkstone in the Form of a Qin Zither, Song dynasty (960?1279), China, Stone (slaty shale), H. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); W. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); L. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm), Inkstone.
EditorialMedieval Art Daghestan area. Fragment of architectural decoration of buildings. Shale, carving. Kubachi village, Dagestan, Russia. 14th-early 15th century. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialTHE BURNING WELL NEAR THE FEATHERSTONE STATION IN THE VICINITY OF PONTEFRACT. In boring for coal, the sinkers penetrated a bed of shale at a depth of about 120 feet, upon which the water previously rising through the borehole was suddenly ejected like ...