EditorialDavid J. Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, testifies before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on border security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 28, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialDavid J. Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, testifies before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on border security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 28, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Magdeburg panel, Ottonian, around 965 CE. Ivory panel with a scene from the gospel of Saint Luke: Christ and a group of disciples meet a bier being carried out of the city gate. The background is pierced with equal-armed crosses. The panel would ha...
EditorialBattle between the troops of Prince Michael (brother of Prince Andrei Bogoliubski) lying ill on a bier, and his nephew Mstislav Rostislavich (1176). From the Radziwill Chronicle, an early history of Russia. Page 219 v., 612 miniatures, late 15th.
EditorialFigures Mourning at the Bier of a Woman. Drawing. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper. Height: 305 mm (12 in); Width: 489 mm (19.25 in).
EditorialPerformance at an Indian wedding with musicians and dancers entertaining the couple carried in a bier with parasol and flag. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gall...
EditorialChinese funeral procession with coffin on a bier and long parade of mourners. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circ...
EditorialWaheiadooa, Chief of Oheitepeha, lying in state. A bier draped with cloths, on which lies a shrouded body, with a thatched canopy above it, below a larger thatched canopy, with a man to the right, laying an offering at the feet of the corpse, other off...
EditorialAmulet of a Mummy Lying on a Bier. Egyptian. Date: 700 BC-100 BC. Dimensions: 2.2 x 3.5 x 0.5 cm (7/8 x 1 3/8 x 1/4 in.). Faience. Origin: Egypt.