PFH1169896: Australia: Australian aboriginals fishing in a canoe, as depicted in an 1819 watercolour. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167243: Cambodia: Muslim students and teachers pose for a photograph in 1918 outside their madrassa in Phnom Penh. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167677: Thailand: Inthanon, Chao (King) of Chiang Mai, 1871-1897. Seventh lord of the Chao Chet Ton Dynasty. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168139: China: Chinese calendar girl of the 1930s / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165030: Cambodia: Flag of the communist republic of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167248: Cambodia: A 1929 photograph of a rehearsal of the Khmer Royal Ballet at the Chanchay Pavilion in Phnom Penh. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167453: India: A drawing of Hemis Monastery, Ladakh, by Thomas Edward Gordon, (1876). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166061: Maritime: The Battle of Livorno (14 march, 1653), by Reinier Nooms. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169641: India: 'Floating Figures', mural from the Ellora Cave compled, Aurangabad, Maharasthra, c. 5th-10th centuries / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167822: Thailand: Hmong man in his finest clothes, Hmong New Year celebrations, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166438: Tibet / China: a Khampas ferry man, photographed in 1937, carrying a walking stick, a rudimentary rifle and a rattan cable which was used to assist people across the Mekong River. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166444: Cambodia / Vietnam: A 1927 photograph of a postal service vehicle which delivered mail between Phnom Penh and Saigon. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166205: Vietnam: The US Delegation to the Paris Peace Accords (1973) signing the accord. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168959: Laos: A view of the Mekong River, south of Luang Prabang, illustrated by French expeditioner Louis Delaporte in April 1867. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168980: Laos: A Buddhist monk in prayer at Wat Si Saket in Vientiane, redrawn from an 1867 sketch by French expeditioner Louis Delaporte. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169903: Portugal/ Americas: Crew aboard the Victoria on Magellan's famous voyage into the Pacific in 1520 reported flying fish. This stirred at least one European artist's vivid imagination. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169476: China: 'The Yellow Emperor of Peace and One Qi in the North' of the Daoist pantheon. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165276: Sri Lanka: Trees hung with lianas in the Central Highlands. Watercolour by the German scientist and traveller Ernst Haeckel, c.1882. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165969: Islam: The name of Allah or God in Arabic script. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166426: Cambodia: An aerial view of Phnom Penh in 1930. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166468: Egypt: An illustration by Edward w. Lane depicting a backstreet of Cairo. A noble man stands in front of a copperware shop while a soldier of Mohammed Ali's army questions two women. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165576: Morocco: Street scene in the Arab Quarter of Tangiers c.1920 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167476: China / Tibet: Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, 3rd Panchen Lama (1505-1568). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168409: Mongolia: Orug Temur, aka Gulichi, khagan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty (r.1403-1408). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166186: Indian Ocean: A map of the Coasts of Persia, Gujarat and Malabar (French, 1740). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166448: China: A suspension bridge over the Gang Guo gorge on the Mekong River, north of Baoshan in Yunnan Province, photographed in 1937. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1167758: China: Emperor Zhengde, 11th ruler of the Ming Dynasty (r. 1505-1521). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169865: Netherlands/ Mauritius: Van Warwijk's sailors on the island of Mauritius, claimed by the Dutch in 1598. Note the Dutch coat of arms nailed to a tree in the center, making it clear who is colonizing the island. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166158: Guam: A USAF B-52D Stratofortress is overshadowed by a USAF B-52G returning from a bombing mission over Hanoi (1972). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168316: Thailand: The urns carrying the embalmed remains of two princes are passed to the site of the funeral pyre in Bangkok during the reign of King Chulaongkorn (1868 - 1910). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168567: China: The Soong Sisters, Ailing, Meiling and Qingling Soong (in black) visiting Nationlist women soldiers / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168863: China: Empress Xiaojiesu, consort of the 12th Ming Emperor Jiajing (r. 1521-1567). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169017: Sri Lanka: The Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (1651-1711). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169710: China: Sovereign Shennong, Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Period (c.3500-2000 BCE). Han Dynasty mural. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169477: China: The Eight Celestial Emperors in the East, from the Daoist pantheon. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166323: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster: Resolutely Oppose the American Imperialist Wolves! / Bridgeman Images