Images

A black-figure kylix (drinking cup) depicting Hercules being driven in a chariot by Hermes. Athena is to the right. Tarentum, southern Italy, 550-520 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Taranto, Italy)

A black-figure kylix (drinking cup) with Greek hoplite warriors. Tarentum, 550-520 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Taranto, Italy)

A panel from a larger floor mosaic depicting a hunting tiger, Tarentum, southern Italy, Late 2nd, early 3rd century CE. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A crested bronze helmet, Rutigliano (Bari), southern Italy. 430-400 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A Roman mosaic flooring with geometrical designs, Tarentum, southern Italy. 2nd century CE. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A bronze statue of Zeus, Tarentum, southern Italy c. 530 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum of Tarento, Italy)

A bronze helmet with cheek-pieces. 3rd century BCE, Tarentum, southern Italy. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

Two columns, all that remains of an Archaic temple dedicated to Poseidon at Tarentum, southern Italy.

The Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Reserve, depicted here, contains some of the last stretches of the so-called mammoth steppe; an ecosystem in which the woolly mammoth thrived during the Pleistocene.

This carcass of a young woolly mammoth, nicknamed 'Yuka', is on display in Moscow after being found in an astonishingly good condition in Siberia. It died around 39,000 years ago and was between 6 and 11 years old.