Chariot warfare: Did you mean...?

An artist's impression of a chariot race in an ancient hippodrome. (From the computer game Assassin's Creed Origins)

A depiction of a chariot with charioteer on an attic black-figure kylix (510-500 BCE). Olympia Archaeological Museum.

Fresco from a Lucanian tomb depicting a chariot race. From the Necropolis of Gaudo, 340-330 BCE. Paestum Archaeological Museum, Italy.

The Trundholm sun chariot, 1400 BCE. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.

Greek chariot racers from the base of a funerary kouros, later included in the Themistokleian Wall of Athens. 510-500 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

Oil lamp decorated with a four-horsed chariot at speed. Made in Italy, c. 40-70 CE. The British Museum, London.

A detail from a floor mosaic depicting a chariot racer, Tarentum, southern Italy, Late 2nd century CE. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

The Shield of Heracles (also known as The Shield of Herakles and, in the original, Aspis Herakleous) is a poem of 480 hexameter lines written by an unknown Greek poet in the style of Hesiod (lived 8th century BCE). It deals with the Greek...

Roman mosaic depicting a quadriga of the factio russata (‘the Reds,’ representing the summer), 3rd century CE, from Rome. National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid.

Detail of the bronze casing of the Balawat gate. From Balawat (Imgur-Enlil), northern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of King Shalmaneser III, 858-824 BCE. (Ancient Orient Museum/Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Istanbul, Turkey...