Images Dated 16th January 2012

Pergamon Altar. Hephaistos and goddess Eos riding a horse

Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. South frieze. Gigantomachy. An unidentified goddess is followed by Hephaistos, who raises a two-headed hammer aloft. He is followed by another unidentified kneeling god who thrusts a spear into the body. Next, the goddess Eos rides sidesaddle into battle. She pulls back her horse and is armed with a torch. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft

Photograph showing a Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft, right view, standing on a grass airfield with it?s crew in the cockpits, 1917-1918 (c). The pilot sits, while the observer stands in his cockpit leaning with his elbow on the fuselage. From an album containing 96 photographs relating to Lt William Charles Carter who served in the Artists? Rifles The London Regiment from 1913 and 13 Sqn Royal Flying Corps 1917-1918. The RE8 was one of the standard British reconnaissance and artillery spotting aircraft from mid-1917 to the end of the war. Over 4, 000 were built and they were armed with a synchronised forward-firing . 303 inch Vickers machine gun and a Lewis gun on a Scarff ring in the observer's cockpit. Date: circa 1918

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

Pergamon Altar. Leto and Apollo fighting against Tityos

Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. East frieze. Gigantomachy. Leto fights using a torch against titan Tityos. At her other side Apollo fights armed with bow and arrow and has just shot Ephialtes, who lies at his feet. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans