Gavin Hellier / Buddhist and giant stone statue of Reclining Buddha at Xieng Khuan, Vientiane, Laos South East Asia

Ashley Cooper / Old Cave houses in Guadix, Andalucia, Spain. Up to 10,000 people still live in cool underground houses dug out of the rock, this area known as the Barrio Santiago is a mix of modern cave houses and an...

Ashley Cooper / Old Cave houses in Guadix, Andalucia, Spain. Up to 10,000 people still live in cool underground houses dug out of the rock, this area known as the Barrio Santiago is a mix of modern cave houses and an...

Jen Guyton / Desert endemic Welwitschia plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) male at sunset near Swakopmund, Namibia. Unlike most modern plants they're dioecious, which means that there are male plants and female pla...

Kim Taylor / Ancient Assyria reconstructed section of the wall that once surrounded the capital, Nineveh, now engulfed by the modern city of Mosul, Iraq. In 2014 Hatra was taken over by Islamic State militants and...

Ernie Janes / Bronze age standing stone and wind turbine, Cornwall, UK

David Woodfall / Ancient waterways revived in modern use. Severn Estuary. Gloucester Docks, Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Gloucester docks - modern regeneration - re-use of ancient warehouses. Severn Estuary. Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Gloucester docks - modern regeneration - re-use of ancient warehouses from Industrial Revolution. Severn Estuary. Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Regeneration in Gloucester docks. Modern leisure activities in ancient docks. Upper limit of tidal range of Severn Estuary. Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Regeneration in Gloucester docks. Modern leisure activities in ancient docks. Upper limit of tidal range of Severn Estuary. Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Boats moored in regenerated docklands. An example of modern leisure activities in ancient docks. Upper limit of tidal range of Severn Estuary. Gloucester Docks, Gloucestershire, England, UK. September...

David Woodfall / Boats moored in regenerated docklands. An example of modern leisure activities in ancient docks. Upper limit of tidal range of Severn Estuary. Gloucester Docks, Gloucestershire, England, UK. September...

David Woodfall / Men on bench in docklands. Example of modern leisure activities in ancient docks. Upper limit of tidal range of Severn Estuary. Gloucester docks, Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

Nick Upton / Hellenistic / ancient Greek amphitheatre at the Acropolis of Pergamon with the modern city of Bergama in the background, Turkey. August 2009

Tim Laman / Polynesian archeaological site in Hatiheu, Nuku Hiva Island, with ancient stone platform and some modern replicas of carvings. Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

Piotr Naskrecki / Velvet Worm, modern Velvet Worms appear to be remarkably similar to fossil forms dating back as far as the Cambrian Era, 530 million years ago, Queensland, Australia

Piotr Naskrecki / Velvet Worm, modern Velvet Worms appear to be remarkably similar to fossil forms dating back as far as the Cambrian Era, 530 million years ago, Queensland, Australia

Piotr Naskrecki / Velvet Worm, modern Velvet Worms appear to be remarkably similar to fossil forms dating back as far as the Cambrian Era, 530 million years ago, Queensland, Australia

Colin Monteath / Satellite tower and chortens, showing contrast between ancient and modern near Leh, Ladakh, northwest India

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian + Renee Bish, Napo Province, Ecuador.

Fred Bavendam / Horseshoe Crab (Mesolimulus walchi) fossil placed next to modern Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), species is 180 million year old, Bavaria, Germany

WILLIAM OSBORN / Conwy castle + Thomas Telford's suspension bridge + modern road bridge. Gwynedd, Wales, UK

Jeff Foott / Ancient petroglyphs and modern day cowboy rock art near Neon Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

Jeff Foott / Ancient petroglyphs and modern day cowboy rock art near Neon Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

Jeff Foott / Ancient petroglyphs and modern day cowboy rock art near Neon Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

Paul D Stewart / Putative cryogenian cnidarian fossil impressions from the Ranford formation of Australia, of a form reminiscent of the modern Porpita porpita (blue button colonial hydroids). The structure has also be...

Angelo Giampiccolo / The iconic exterior of Rome's Palazzo della Civitlà del Lavoro (1938-43). This monumental building, designed by architect Marcello Piacentini, is situated in the EUR area in southern Rome. The area w...

Rick Tomlinson / 321 meters above the Arabian Gulf, Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, is the world's tallest and most architecturally advanced hotel in the world. ^^^ Standing 280 meters offshore on a man-made island, Burj A...

Rick Tomlinson / Sun setting behind the Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai. At 321 meters above the Arabian Gulf, Burj Al Arab Hotel is the world's tallest and most architecturally advanced hotel in the world. ^^^ Standing 280...

Rick Tomlinson / 321 meters above the Arabian Gulf, Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai is the world's tallest and most architecturally advanced hotel in the world. Standing 280 meters offshore on a man-made island, Burj Al Ara...

Philippe Clement / Skull replica of Cro-Magnon, first early modern human to settle in Europe about 45,000 years ago.

Mike Read / Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) stunted trees and moss covered boulders. Wistman's Wood National Nature Reserve, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK. October.

Mike Read / Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) stunted trees and moss covered boulders. Wistman's Wood National Nature Reserve, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK. October.

Mike Read / Moss covered boulders and tree trunks of ancient Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur). Wistman's Wood National Nature Reserve, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK. November.

Mike Read / Moss covered boulders and tree trunks of ancient Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur). Wistman's Wood National Nature Reserve, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK. November.

Adrian Davies / Maple seed (Acer sp.) fossil from the Oligocene period (c. 30 million years old), compared with modern day seed from tree of a similar species (Acer japonicum), studio environment.

Will Watson / Hart's-tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium), ancient woodland, Herefordshire, England, December, focus stacked.