PFH1171659: China: Preparing for a religious ceremony in a mural in the tomb of Zhang Gongyou, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171661: China: Man and camel cart in a mural in the tomb of Han Shixun, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171666: China: Musicians and a dancer in a mural in the tomb of Han Shixun, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171670: China: Women preparing tea in a mural in the tomb of Han Shixun, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171673: China: Preparing sutras for a religious ceremony (detail) in a mural in the tomb of Han Shixun, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171729: China: Han Yu (Han Wengong, 768-824), Tang Dynasty essayist, poet and philosopher. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171751: India: Japanese WWII propaganda leaflet reminding Indians how the British destroyed their cotton industry by burning crops and chopping off fingers / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171775: Japan: Advertising poster for Sakura Beer, c. 1930. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171780: Japan: Advertising poster for Urara Cigarettes, 1932 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171785: Japan: Advertising poster for the South Kyoto Tobacco Sellers' Union, 1937 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171805: Afghanistan: Giant, rock-hewn chedi at Mes Aynak, Logar Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171930: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster - 'Tear up the American Flag'. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171938: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster showing a fierce communist soldier smashing the Capitol building in Washington DC, USA / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171942: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster - 'Let's make wearing the beautiful and elegant Korean dress a lifestyle'. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171943: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster glorifying the North Korean armed forces / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171945: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster - 'Firmly managing one's resource base, more provisions for the people!' / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172045: India: Japanese WWII propaganda leaflet depicts the Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek trying to push or pull an Indian into the fight against Japan / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172096: Vietnam: President Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) in front of his wooden house in the grounds of the Presidential Palace, Hanoi (1960) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172123: Tahiti: 'A View of Matavai Bay', William Hodges, c. 1775 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172133: South Pacific: Cover of 'Faery Lands of the South Seas' by James Norman Hall and Charles Bernard Nordoff (1921) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172140: Tahiti: Pomare V, King of Tahiti (3 November 1839 - 12 June 1891) was the last Pomare monarch of Tahiti, reigning from 1877 until his forced abdication in 1880. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172146: Thailand: Khaw Soo Chiang (Kho Suchiang) Na Ranong, ethnic Chinese founder of the Setthi Na Ranong family, c. 1790 - c. 1875 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172149: Thailand: Street scene with Sino-Portuguese shophouses in Phuket, c. 1970s / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172162: Thailand: A tin dredger at work in Phang Nga Bay, 1952 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172170: Thailand Four prosperous Phuket businessmen, all of Chinese ethnic origin, pose in a studio photograph, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172172: Thailand: Man holding the head of a python that has swallowed a small pig, Phuket Island, 1962 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172179: Thailand: Labourers working in an open cast tin mine, Phuket, c. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172185: Thailand: Phraya Ratsadanupradit Mahison Phakdi (1857-1916), born Khaw Sim Bee, Governor of Phuket (1902-1916) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172191: Thailand: A southern Thai beauty photographed in a Phuket studio c. 1950s. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172197: Thailand: 'A marriage in the Chinese Baba fashion', Phuket, c.1920 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172210: England / Malaysia / Thailand: Captain Sir Francis Light (1740-1794), founder of the British colony of Penang, now Penang State, Malaysia / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172226: Syria: Ezra reads the Law. Fresco from Dura Europos synagogue, c.250 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172228: Syria: Central panel above the Torah niche. Fresco from Dura Europos synagogue, c.250 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172291: Japan: Worshippers at a temple, c.1910 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172294: Japan: A temple at Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, c.1895 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172299: China / Belgium: Ferdinand Verbiest (Nan Huairen), Jesuit Missionary at the Qing Court of the Kangxi Emperor, Mathematician and Astronomer (1623-1688) / Bridgeman Images