Chariot warfare: Did you mean...?

Medea flying on her chariot, red-figure calyx-krater (mixing vessel), South Italian, Lucanian, c. 400 BCE. Cleveland Museum of Art.

Eos in her four-horse chariot, detail of terracotta red-figure lekanis vase attributed to the Stuttgart group, from Canosa, late 300s BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This sardonyx cameo depicts Nike (Victory). The winged goddess wears a long chiton and drives a 4-horse chariot. Skillful Roman cameo-carvers exploited the tonal contrast of some stones. This could be a simple 2-tone contrast or a more subtle...

Incomplete model chariot from the Oxus Treasure. Achaemenid Period (550-330 BCE) British Museum

A modern illustration of the Irish-Celtic hero Cú Chulainn, one of the chief characters in the Ulster Cycle. By Joseph Christian Leyendecker, c. 1911 CE. (From 'Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race' by T. W. Rolleston)

This is part of a sequence being prepared for the exhibition in Schallaburg, Austria which will begin on the 31st of March 2012. The original is in Full HD.

The figure of Phaethon in Greek Mythology is best known for his attempt to drive the sun Chariot (the chariot of Helios), which ended up with disastrous results. Phaethon was the son of the titan god of the sun, Helios, and Clymene an ocean...

Chariot-racing was the only Olympic sport in which women could take part, as owners of teams of horses. Kyniska, a princess of Sparta, was the first woman to win the Olympic crown in this sport. British Museum curator Judith Swaddling describes...

An artist's rendition of what a siege attack may have looked like in the ancient world.

A scene depicting Roman naval ships in battle.