PFH1177441: Singapore / Malaysia: Embroidered Baba-Nyonya bed motif, Peranakan community / Bridgeman Images

PFH1177475: Indonesia: A gayaman-style kris, featuring Semar on the handle, floral etching on the sheath, and a dragon design on the blade. Probably from Solokarta, Java / Bridgeman Images

PFH1177537: Thailand: An amulet of King Naresuan of Siam (r. 1555-1605) riding a war elephant / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170641: China: Qing (Manchu) General Agui (1717-1797) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170674: Japan: Matsudaira Harusato (Fumai), Lord of Matsue (r.1767-1806). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170723: Japan: Chion-in Temple at Higayashima, 1890. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170728: Japan: The busy fish market at Atsuta, 1899. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170738: Japan: Kobe's famous Minatogawa Shrine in 1897. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170767: Japan / USA: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170797: Thailand: Two novice monks stand next to a reclining Buddha, Wat Phra That Haripunchai, Lamphun (c. 1920) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170840: USA: Tlingit inhabitants of Lituya Bay, Alaska, c.1875. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170845: Fiji: A Fijian man, c.1785. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170981: India: Above: Vasant Ragini, blue-skinned and crowned, with seven female musicians and dancers; Below: Asavari Ragini, blue-skinned, charming snakes and fish with wind instrument, with attendant sitting in tree. (Ragmala miniature painting, c.1800). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170987: India: Above: Dipak Raga riding elephant, with four female attendants during Divali; Below: Sri Raga seated, with three female attendants, a musician playing a vina and a Kinnara (heavenly musician with a horse's head). (Ragmala miniature painting, c.1800 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166943: Egypt: Queen Nefertari together with her husband Pharaoh Thutmose IV (18th Dynasty r. 1401-1391 BCE). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166983: Laos: An 1867 picture of ethnic Khuen people and Pung Dam, known as 'black bellies' for their tattooed torsos. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167113: Vietnam: Truong Chinh (1907-1988), Nationalist and Communist ideologue. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167121: China / Tibet: Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, 1st Panchen Lama (1385-1438). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167130: Vietnam: Traditional Vietnamese Royal Vessels ('Anciennes Barques Royales Annamites'), c.1910. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1177599: Korea: Three kisaeng entertainers or courtesans, c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1177650: Iran / Persia: 'Never hence would I die for I am alive, having sown the seeds of poetry'. From Firdausi's Shahnameh / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171104: China: Crowned bodhisattva in painted terracotta, late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167233: Cambodia: Khmer Buddhist monks take part in a Kathin ceremony in Phnom Penh in 1925. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167267: China: Bai nationality porters near Lijiang, Yunnan Province, 1923. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171332: Vietnam: A door guardian, Forbidden City, Hue, c. 1930. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171368: Japan: Lost Horyuji Temple fresco from a pre-1949 photograph: No.6 wall, Amitabha Buddha Paradise detail, Avalokitesvara face. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171423: Ethiopia:The British Expedition to Abyssinia. British Naval ships at Annelsey Bay, Ethiopia, December 1867 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178018: Iran / Persia / Afghanistan: Sun and lion symbols from an astrological treatise by Abu Ma'shar Ibn Balkhi, 850 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178154: Iran / Persia: Official portrait of Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq (16 June 1882 - 5 March 1967), Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 until being overthrown in a coup d'état in 1953 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172964: India: Calligraphy by Prince Dara Shikuh (1615-1639), Mughal, 1631 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172982: Thailand: Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram (July 14, 1897-June 11, 1964), generally known as Phibun Songkhram, Prime Minister and military dictator from 1938 to 1944 and 1948 to 1957 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168903: Thailand: The coronation of the King of Ubon Ratchathani in January 1867, as illustrated by French expeditioner Louis Delaporte. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173087: Sudan / South Sudan: A Shilluk or Chollo woman, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179427: Burma / Myanmar: 'Shoepaundogee, or Royal Golden Barge', Konbaung era. Engraving from Michael Symes, Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, 1795 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173310: France / Vietnam: Henri Laurent Riviere, French naval officer and imperialist (1827-1883) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179523: China: Western sailors in a bar on 'Blood Alley', Shanghai, c. 1935 / Bridgeman Images