GUF4358115: Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. St. Petersburg. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358144: Interior of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358187: Woman in the inner course of the mosque of Umayyads (Umayyads, Umayyads), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358196: Colonnade behind stones, Palmyra site, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358216: Damascus from Mount Kassioun, Syria, 2003. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358241: Prayer in the mosque of Umayyad (Umayyad, Umayyad), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358085: Neapolitan guignols. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358093: A wing of the Palace of Catherine La Grande in Pushkin, designed by Rastrelli, rebuilt after the bombing of the Second World War. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358127: The Hermitage Museum. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358135: The Russian Museum. Artwork by Carlo Rossi (1819 - 29). Mikhailovsky Garden. St. Petersburg. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358166: Boy reading the Qur'an in Mohi al Din Mosque, Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358112: Church of the Resurrection of Christ on the Griboedova Canal, not far from Prospettiva Nevsky, built between 1883 and 1907, on the model of the Saint Basilica of Moscow. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358155: Interior of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358215: Palmyra site with the castle of Fakhr ed Din, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358266: Women veiled, Damascus, Syria. 2003 / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358329: Saladin Mausolee (1138-1193) (Salah al Din Yusuf al-Ayyubi (al Ayyubi), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358406: Women veiled, souk Hamidiye, Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358477: Saffron and other spices, souk of Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358562: Prayer, mosque of the Umayyad (Umayyad, Umayyad), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358351: Smokers of narghileh, Damascus, Syria / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358485: Spices, souk of Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358510: Hammam Nour ed Din (1154), Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358565: Prayers in front of the mausoleum of John the Baptist, Umayyad mosque (Umayyad, Damascus), Syria. / Bridgeman Images

LSE4356766: View of the city of Khenifra in Morocco. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358825: Statue of Intendant Ebih-il (detail), frontal view, Sumerian era (circa 2400 BC). Found on the archaeological site of Tell Hariri, Syria. Alabaster, shell, lapis lazuli, shale. Height 0,53 cm. Louvre Museum, Paris. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358848: Local coffee maker and biscuits, pastry shop Moussattat, Aleppo, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358944: Paris 2004. Portrait of the Chinese writer Bi Feiyu. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358892: Portrait of the writer Amélie Nothomb, Paris, France, 2004 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359382: The Vittoriale degli italiani (Vittoriale des Italians) a Gardone Riviera (Italy). Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) lived in this house on the shore of Lake Garda between 1921 and 1938. The veranda of Apollo. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359471: Pekin. One year before the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games, the future Olympic stadium in construction. Architects Herzog and De Meuron. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358722: Fountain of Al Fathyyeh Mosque 1742, Damascus, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358735: Men, souk Hamidiye at night, Syria. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358806: Glassware in Damascus, 2003, Syria / Bridgeman Images

GUF4358977: Bust of Alexandre the Great (356 - 323 BC), Louvre Museum, Paris. / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359124: Aleppo (Halab in Arabic), a city in north-western Syria. The citadel, an important defensive fortification of the 10th century against the attacks of the Cruses: entrance gate, with the lion, symbol of the Ayyubides Dynasty (1171-1260). / Bridgeman Images

GUF4359169: The Crac of the Knights (Qala'at el Husn or Qala'at al Hosn) in Syria. Castle built around 1100 by Raymond IV of Toulouse, known as Raymond de Saint Gilles, Count of Toulouse and Tripoli (Raymond I) (1042-1105). / Bridgeman Images