PFH1176089: Thailand: Skeletal remains unearthed atuseum at Wiang Tha Kan now in the small museum, Chiang Mai Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176102: Thailand: Wat Noi, Wiang Thakan, Chiang Mai Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176113: Thailand: Wat Pa Fai Ruak, Wiang Thakan, Chiang Mai Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176119: Thailand: Wat Ku Mai Daeng, Wiang Thakan, Chiang Mai Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175845: Thailand: Pak Bara, estuary next to the ferry point / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175853: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, Ko Tarutao, Ao Pante Malaka / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175869: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, Ko Tarutao, To-Bu (Toe-Boo) Cliff area / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175874: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, Ko Tarutao, Ao Pante Malaka / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175881: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, Ko Tarutao, near Ao Pante Malaka / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175940: Great Britain: Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885) - 'Chinese Gordon', later 'Gordon of Khartoum' / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175989: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, Ko Hin Ngam, visitors on the pebble beach / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175995: China: Nushu (literally 'women's writing'), is a syllabic script, a simplification of Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176017: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, spirit house on the beach at Ko Rawi / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176031: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, snorkelling off the beach at Laem Son, Ko Adang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176046: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, beach at Laem Son on Ko Adang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176051: Thailand: Ko Tarutao Marine National Park, divers at Laem Son, Ko Adang / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176088: Thailand: Museum at Wat Klang Muang, Wiang Tha Kan, Chiang Mai Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176095: Thailand: Wat Ubosot, Wiang Tha Kan, Chiang Mai Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176115: Thailand: Wat Pa Fai Ruak, Wiang Thakan, Chiang Mai Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172564: Japan: Four women preparing a meal in a traditional kitchen, c.1895, Enami Nobukuni (1859-1929) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172574: Japan: Grandmother and granddaughter selling baskets from a pole, c.1910 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172624: Syria: The ancient wool and leather suq within Aleppo's Great Bazaar / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172647: South China Sea: Map of the disputed Paracels Islands and Spratly Islands detailing the Chinese claim / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172680: India: An Indian representation of Rahu, Snake Demon and causer of solar and lunar eclipses / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172700: China: Painting on silk representing thousand-armed Avalokitesvara or Guanyin, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gandu, c.9th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172711: China: Xisi Ta (West Pagoda), built during the Tang Dynasty, Kunming, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172731: China: Qiongzhu Si (Bamboo Temple), northwest of Kunming / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172750: China: Children looking at a mobile peepshow, Beijing, late Qing Dynasty (c.1900) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172758: Japan: Eguchi no Kimi seated on an elephant representing Bodhisattava Fugen (1850), by Utagawa Sadahiro (active 1825-1875) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172778: Iran: Page from an illuminated 1604 copy of Tuhfat al-Iraqayn by Afzal al-Din Shirvani Khaqani (1126-1198) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172807: China: Octagonal Qing-era pavilion, Yuantong Si (Yuantong Temple), Kunming, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172823: China: The Naxi (Nakhi) Folk Orchestra, Naxi Orchestra Hall, Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172543: Japan: 'Come, the Dawn of Mankind is Breaking', poster for a farmers' theatrical performance, 1928 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172594: Syria: The Tetrapylon (Four Columns), Palmyra / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172628: Thailand: Bell tower, Wat Phra Nang Sang, Phuket / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172636: Thailand: Buddha statue and wall murals on the viharn at Wat Phra Nang Sang, Phuket / Bridgeman Images