Near East 

Timbuktu, Mali, is the legendary city founded as a commercial center in West Africa nine hundred years ago. Dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, the ancient manuscripts presented in this exhibition cover every aspect of human endeavor and are indicative of the high level of civilization attained by West Africans during the Middle Ages.

Contains many images on the Middle East.

Millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google..

Part of the NYPL Digital Library. Several thousand prints and photographs contained in works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

Primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, ephemera, and more.

Cultural production from diverse time periods and world cultures, and major monuments of world art and architectural history.

Images for educational use from the California State University IMAGE project. Includes broad subject coverage, from art and architecture to science and technology, portraits, maps, and the natural world.

Images are of Egypt and Israel, from 3000 BCE to modern times.

Broad and representative collection of images illustrating the geography, folkways, lifestyles and architecture of the vast regions (or oblasts) of the Russian Federation and other newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Some coverage of Central Asia

Nearly 10,000 images of architecture and city views from around the world.