PFH1173867: Vietnam: Led by an RB-66 Destroyer, pilots flying Air Force F-4C Phantoms drop bombs on a Communist military target in North Vietnam., August 1966 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173873: Vietnam: A Vietnamese Army honour guard, Hanoi, 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173877: Vietnam: Communist propaganda poster: 'The Army and People are of One Mind'! 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167393: Vietnam: A funeral procession passes through the streets of Hanoi in 1926. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167449: Mongolia: Sharav Dondogdulam, wife of the Eighth Jebtsundamba Khutugtu Bogd Khan, last monarchic ruler of Mongolia. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167483: China / Tibet: Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen, 4th Panchen Lama (1570-1662). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174018: Vietnam: Blue and White Fish Plate with fanciful depiction of flounder like fish with extravagant fins swimming amongst water plants. Later Lê Dynasty (1533-1788) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174123: Japan: A Japanese soldier, 1844 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174266: Greece: Fresco fragment of a dancing girl of Knossos, Crete, c. 1600-1450 BCE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174300: Afghanistan: Lapis Lazuli from the Hindu Kush mountains / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167675: Thailand: Kawilorot, Chao (King) of Chiang Mai, 1856-1870. Sixth lord of the Chao Chet Ton Dynasty. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174505: Burma: A boys' boxing match, c.1892-96. Lethwei is an unarmed Burmese martial art / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174509: China: Guanyin 'Goddess of Mercy' and a bodhisattva with monks and worshippers, painting on silk, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Five Dynasties period (907-960 CE) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174614: China: Shanghai's Xujiahui Cathedral (St Ignatius Cathedral) was built between 1906 and 1910 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163754: China: Formation of a division of the Japanese 1st Army after the Battle of Mukden, (Russo-Japanese War, 8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163842: China: Clay figurines from Astana Cemetery, Turfan, Xinjiang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163859: China: Shorchuk, Xinjiang, standing Bodhisattva, Xinjiang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163930: Vietnam: A-1E Skyraider aircraft of the 34th Tactical Group, based at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, fly in formation over South Vietnam on way to target on June 25, 1965 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163959: Vietnam: French 120mm mortar being transported on horseback somewhere in rural Tonkin, northern Vietnam, during the First Indochina War / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168021: Nigeria: Carved wooden panel from a Kingdom of Benin stool showing captives in restraints / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163963: Vietnam: A young American soldier waiting to go into battle during the Second Indochina War. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168043: Nigeria:'Battle Royal for Benin relics'. Headline from the Glasgow Herald, January 25 1997 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163978: Japan: Traditional Festivals at Kyoto, Imamiya Festival, Edo Period / Bridgeman Images

PFH1163992: Thailand: King Prajadhipok or Rama VII (1925-35). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168063: Mongolia: Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168143: China: Chinese poster girls from a 1930s Shanghai manufacturing company calendar. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1164166: China: A Chinese view of the Second Opium War (1856-1860). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1164232: Afghanistan: Zaman Shah Durrani (c.1770 - 1844) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1793 until 1800. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168473: China: The Chenghua Emperor (1447-1487), 8th Ming Emperor. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168718: China: A sketch of the town of Ta-lan in southern Yunnan Province, 1867. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168725: China: The picturesque village of Pou-eul in Yunnan province surrounded by tiered rice paddies, drawn in 1867 by Louis Delaporte. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168737: China: A French expedition tows its boats on the Kon-tchang River in Yunnan Province in 1868. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168789: Laos: A panoramic view of the mouth of the Ou River in Upper Laos, illustrated in 1867 by French expeditioner Louis Delaporte. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168828: China: Emperor Xuande, 5th ruler of the Ming Dynasty (r. 1425-1435). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175679: Vietnam: Women of the anti-French colonial resistance captured at Yen The, 1886 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165048: Cambodia: Signed photograph of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, c.1952. / Bridgeman Images