SRB7204302: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204304: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2641770: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: The Royal Seal of the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429-1879) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642283: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: 'The Prince of Loo Choo' (King Sho Ko, r. 1804-1828)), from 'Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island', Basil Hall, London, 1818 (litho) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2641783: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Pipe Smoking Inhabitants, 'Scene After the Prince of Loo Choo's Feast', from 'Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island', Basil Hall, London, 1818 (litho) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642296: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Photographer shooting Daguerrotypes on Okinawa, Perry Expedition, 1853 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188568: India: Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu / Bridgeman Images

XLF3789946: Emperor Peter the Great / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204322: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204324: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642298: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: 'Bridge and Causeway at Ma-Chi-Na-Too' (Makiminato), Okinawa, Perry Expedition, 1853 / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642302: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Market Place at Naha, Okinawa, Perry Expedition, 1853 / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642305: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Tomari Bridge and Port, Okinawa, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642316: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Children at a mission school, Okinawa, c. 1910 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204305: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204308: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204311: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204314: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204319: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2641769: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Detail of a scroll painting depicting the Kingdom of Ryukyu's embassy to the Japanese Court at Edo in 1710 during the reign of King Sho Eki (1710-1712), 18th ruler of the Ryukyu Second Sho Dynasty / Bridgeman Images

PFH2641772: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Qing Dynasty Seal of the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429-1879) in Mongolian and Chinese / Bridgeman Images

PFH2641782: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: 'Scene After the Prince of Loo Choo's Feast', from 'Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island', Basil Hall, London, 1818 (litho) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2641784: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: 'Priest and Gentleman of Loo Choo', from 'Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island', Basil Hall, London, 1818 (litho) / Bridgeman Images

PFH2641759: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Flag of the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429-1879) until 1875 / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642295: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: 'Sulphur Island' (Iwo Tori Shima), from 'Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island', Basil Hall, London, 1818 / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642297: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: Street Scene in Naha, Okinawa, Perry Expedition, 1853 / Bridgeman Images

PFH2642306: Japan / Ryukyu Islands: 'The Port of Naha', Okinawa, Perry Expedition, 1853 / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204309: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204315: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204317: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB7204325: Aerial view of Tamarit Castle next to Altafulla beach, TARRAGONA, 2021 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PCT6646936: Porte de Narbonne of the cite of Carcassonne, with the bust of Dame Carcas. (photograph) / Bridgeman Images

YOU4420194: View on the portal of honour of the castle of the Upper Koenigsbourg, Castle built and reworked between 12th and 17th century, Tombs in ruins after the Thirty Years' War, Restore between 1901 and 1918 by the German architect Bodo Ebhardt (1865-1945), the portal and its low reliefs being a creation of the latter during the restoration are controversial. Medieval military architecture., Orschwiller, Bas Rhin, Alsace Champagne Ardenne Lorraine. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4689870: Alexander the Great surrounded by Indian fauna during the conquest of India. With Diana hunting deer, and wrestlers, Christian symbols. 1163-1166 (Mosaic, pavement), Unknown Artist, (12th century) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4677242: A couple of the Middle Ages play at the wheel, on a bridge - Lithograph from an illustration by J.E. Rogers, from Passe temps actuels de l'Engleterre heureuse, by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), 1873 - Medieval man and woman playing a game of battledore and shuttlecock on a bridge over a river - Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's “” Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156171: Master Carpenter, Mr Puffett puts the finishing touches to a skirting, using a 400 year old carving as his model, for one of the restored Manchester Regiment chapel screens at Manchester Cathedral, 12th April 1951 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images