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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)

Opus sectile panel (made of precisely cut polished varicolored marble) from the Basilica of Junius Bassus which stood on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. The panel, dating from the 4th century CE, depicts a tiger attacking a calf. (Musei Capitolini...

A photograph of a German Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank in Tunisia, 1943 during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). The tank had an 88mm gun. (German Federal Archives)

A mural from a Goguryeo tomb depicting the mythical white tiger which represented the cardinal direction West. (likely 6th-7th century CE)

At roughly 22 cm (9 in) in length and containing 22 Chinese characters, this tiger bone was made in the third year of Emperor Dixin (fl. c. 1152 BCE) of the Shang Dynasty (c.1600-1046 BCE). (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto)

This Roman mosaic of an exotic tiger comes from Avenches, Switzerland. It was made from stone and glass, and it dates from c. 200-250 CE. (Landesmuseum, Zürich)

Mosaic floor depicting two venatores hunting a tiger, from Constantinople's Great Palace, 6th century CE. Venatores ("hunters") were a type of performer in ancient Rome who specialised in hunting and fighting wild animals in Roman amphitheatres...

In the royal House of Books (Ketabkhana), which housed the library as well as being the place where manuscripts were created, Hindustani artists and Persian calligraphers, bookbinders, and illuminators came together to work under two Iranian...

The Battle of Kursk (Jul-Aug 1943), which involved nearly 6,000 tanks, was the largest tank battle in history and ended in a decisive victory for the Red Army in WWII (1939-45). Two Axis armies had attempted to cut off a Red Army bulge in...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor who flourished during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. Known as the 'Bard of Avon,' he wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and three longer narrative poems...