Jenny E. Ross / A Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) plantation in the Coachella Valley near the Salton Sea. More than 90 percent of the dates produced in the United States are grown in this region, using Colorado River...

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} looking up at the ripening dates, Muscat, Oman

Ashley Cooper / Skara Brae on Orkney, Scotland. October 2011. This ancient village dates from around 3200 BC making it the oldest village in Europe. It was revealed by a great storm in 1850. It consists of eight hous...

Juan Manuel Borrero / Structure II (Great Pyramid), one of the largest Mayan structures. This temple pyramid is built over a smaller pyramid which dates back to 400 BC-250 AD with later extensions added on to the building,...

Juan Manuel Borrero / Structure II (Great Pyramid), one of the largest Mayan structures. This temple pyramid is built over a smaller pyramid which dates back to 400 BC-250 AD with later extensions added on to the building,...

Juan Manuel Borrero / Structure II (Great Pyramid), one of the largest Mayan structures. This temple pyramid is built over a smaller pyramid which dates back to 400 BC-250 AD with later extensions added on to the building,...

Erlend Haarberg / Date palm plantation by a small river in the Hajar Mountains. United Arab Emirates.

Paul D Stewart / Four tools of the mesolithic / neolithic period made from Red deer antlers. Dates range from approximately 5000 - 2000 BC. From left (and top) an antler mining pick retrieved from a British flint min...

David Tipling / Sheet gold vulture that would have been wrapped around body before mummification, From the tomb of the three minor wives of Thutmose III in the Wady Babbanet El-Qurud, Thebes Egypt. From 18th Dynasty...

David Tipling / The Ancient Egyptian painted tomb chapel of Khnumhotep ll featuring remarkably accurate images of birds that include Masked Shrike, Red-backed Shrike, Hoopoe, Redstart, Pintails. This is a scene show...

Nick Garbutt / Dates for sale in fruit & veg souk (market) in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. April 2013

John Waters / Clapper bridge made from slabs of granite crossing the River Dart at Dartmeet, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK. The bridge probably dates back to medieval times and it has been rebuilt several time...

John Waters / Clapper bridge made from slabs of granite crossing the River Dart at Dartmeet, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK. The bridge probably dates back to medieval times and it has been rebuilt several time...

Jack Dykinga / Grinding stones in Mayan Ruins, Oxkintok, one of the oldest cities in the Yucatan with hieroglyphic inscriptions showing some of the earliest dates known in the Yucatan.

Jack Dykinga / Mayan Ruins at Oxkintok, one of the oldest cities in the Yucatan with hieroglyphic inscriptions showing some of the earliest dates known in the Yucatan. Mexico

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Expedition names and dates written in rocks on the beach at Beverleysundet. Nordastlandet, Svalbard, Norway, June 2006.

Fabio Liverani / Nuts, dates and sweets for sale on a stall in souk / market, Fes, Morocco, December 2010.

Pete Oxford / Market trader selling dried fruit and nuts, Djemaa el-Fna (the square), Marrakech, Morocco, June 2009

Pete Oxford / Fresh dates for sale, Djemaa el-Fna (the square), Marrakech, Morocco, June 2009

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} freshly harvested dates in basket made from palm fronds attached to the trunk of a date palm, Muscat, Oman

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} freshly harvested ripe dates ready to eat, Muscat, Oman

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} man harvesting dates in date plantation, Muscat, Oman

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} with ripe dates, Muscat, Oman

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} clusters of ripening dates, Muscat, Oman

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Lesser whitethroat {Sylvia curruca} perched on ripe dates, Mabr, Oman

Inaki Relanzon / Tradesman selling dates, apricots and various nuts and pulses in the "Jemaa el Fna" square, Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa

Colin Monteath / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) teeth with Scrimshaw artwork sitting atop whale vertebrae, dates from 1840's whaling era, Fyffe Historic House, Kaikoura, New Zealand

Jose B. Ruiz / Night time shot of Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} with moon in background, Spain.

Igor Shpilenok / The Kirillo-Belovezhsky Monastery on the shores of a lake, dates from the C16th.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Dwarf fan palm fruit {Chamaerops humilis} Spain

Colin Monteath / Baleen plates from whale mouth, dates from 1840's whaling era, Kaikoura, New Zealand

John Waters / Ancient woodland growing on abandoned open cast mine, Scowles, Forest of Dean, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England, UK, November 2022. Mine dates back to Roman period.

Matt Roseveare / Remains of bank making up medieval park pale, a deer park boundary, surrounded by woodland, Lyndhurst, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, UK, December, 2023. Park pale dates back to year 1291.

Matt Roseveare / Remains of bank making up medieval park pale, a deer park boundary, covered in moss and surrounded by woodland, Lyndhurst, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, UK, December, 2023. Park pale dates back...

Matt Roseveare / Remains of bank making up medieval park pale, a deer park boundary, covered in moss and surrounded by woodland, Lyndhurst, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, UK, December, 2023. Park pale dates back...

Matt Roseveare / Remains of bank making up medieval park pale, a deer park boundary, surrounded by woodland, Lyndhurst, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, UK, December, 2023. Park pale dates back to year 1291.

Will Watson / Decaying Bog oak (Quercus sp.) tree trunk extracted from arable land next to Holme Fen National Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire, UK, February. Tree dates between 2500 and 3500 BC.

Roger Powell / Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius atricapillus) perched beside its nest on a date palm, K'Far Ruppin kibbutz, Jordan Valley, Israel, March.

Tui De Roy / Ranger with sign detailing the eggs hatching dates and weights at Department of Conservation Kiwi Rearing Facility, West Coast, New Zealand . February 2014

Ingo Arndt / Tree beekeeper Andrzej Pazura tasting his freshly harvested honey. Tree hive beekeeping is a traditional practice that dates back 1000 years, Poland.

Ingo Arndt / Trees used for Tree Beekeeping are marked with a unique family mark called 'tamga' which is carved into the bark at the base of the tree. Tree hive beekeeping is a traditional practice that da...

Jack Dykinga / Utah serviceberry bush (Amelanchier utahensis) growing in petrified sand dune. Sand dune dates to Jurassic Period. Paria Plateau, White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA.

David Fleetham / Fish print of a mahi-mahi also known as a dorado or dolphin fish. Gyotaku is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of printing was u...