PFH1174466: Burma: Young Buddhist novices study inside a monastic school in a rural Burmese village, c.1892-96. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174500: Burma: Shan farmers with village in the background, c.1892-96. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186030: China / USA: Publicity picture of Anna May Wong for the 1937 Paramount Pictures release 'A Daughter of Shanghai' / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186072: Vietnam: The palace of the French Governor-General in Hanoi, 1887 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186118: Iran / Persia: A decorated ceramic bowl depicting a well-to-do couple of Turko-Mongolian ethnicity. They may be nobles of the Khwarezmid Court. Kashan, c1200, late Khwarezmid Period / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186141: Burma / Myanmar: Pyu coinage from Sri Ksetra, reverse impressed with Srivasta fertility symbols, sun, moon, conch shell and thunderbolt, c. 630-830 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178715: Vietnam: A traditional woodblock painting of Vietnamese mice paying tribute to the big cat (China), from Dong Ho village, Bac Ninh Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174996: China: Scene from the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Liaoning, 1968 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175205: India: The Mughal Emperor Humayun seated with his brothers and members of the royal court in a rural setting, c. 1550 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175260: Egypt: The elaborate and richly decorated interior of a private house, Cairo, Pascal Coste, c.1839 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178926: Netherlands / Holland: 'The Seated Zouave' by Vincent Willem Van Gogh (1853-1890) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178961: China / USA: Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, Commander of the Flying Tigers, Yunnan, China, May 1942 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171078: China: Ink rubbing of the stele commissioned by Qianlong depicting the arhat Asita. The upper right shows the inscriptions of the eulogy given by Qianlong. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175492: Vietnam: Advertsing poster featuring Chinese Opera in Cholon, the Continental Palace Hotel, Saigon, c.1952 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175585: Deo Van Long, Lord of the Tai Federation of Sipsongchuthai (Lai Chau 1887 - Toulouse 1975) with his wife / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171329: Vietnam: Lion used in ornamentation, Forbidden City, Hue, c.1930. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171370: Japan: Lost Horyuji Temple fresco from a pre-1949 photograph: No.6 wall, Amitabha Buddha Paradise, left detail, Mahasthamaprapta face. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175678: Vietnam: The Continental Hotel, Saigon, c. 1958, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1175824: Niger: Tuaregs of Agadez, George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1176060: Italy / Venice: Pietro Loredano, Doge of Venice (1567-1570) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172170: Thailand Four prosperous Phuket businessmen, all of Chinese ethnic origin, pose in a studio photograph, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172179: Thailand: Labourers working in an open cast tin mine, Phuket, c. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172210: England / Malaysia / Thailand: Captain Sir Francis Light (1740-1794), founder of the British colony of Penang, now Penang State, Malaysia / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172228: Syria: Central panel above the Torah niche. Fresco from Dura Europos synagogue, c.250 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172847: Indonesia: Javanese classical dancer (c.1925) by Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172851: Indonesia: Javanese classical dancer (c.1925) by Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172896: Vietnam: Communist party propaganda poster (2011) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172914: Vietnam: Coffee bushes at Khe Sanh, central Vietnam / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173024: Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej (born born 5 December 1927, r. since 9 June 1946) in an affectionate embrace with his mother, Somdej Phra Srinagarindra / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168848: China: Emperor Hongzhi, 10th ruler of the Ming Dynasty (r. 1487-1505). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168864: China: Emperor Longqing, 13th ruler of the Ming Dynasty (r. 1567-1572). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168884: China: Empress Dowager Xiaohe, consort of the 15th Ming Emperor Taichang (r. 1620). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1168988: Laos: An 1867 drawing by French expeditioner Louis Delaporte of Wat Phra Keo temple in Vientiane. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173108: Central Africa: James Augustus Grant (1827 - 1892), Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169007: China: Yuhuang Dadi, the 'Jade Emperor', supreme deity of Daoism. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1169054: China: Emperor Taizong (Tang Lishimin), 2nd ruler of the Tang Dynasty (r. 626-649). / Bridgeman Images