Time.com Photo Essays

LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945
Oil. A simple word that for much of the 20th century, and well into the 21st, has meant unimaginable wealth for a very few; plentiful and (for a time, at least)...

Brazil’s Epic Carnival: Scenes from Rio’s Sambadrome
The revelers and costumes were out in full force in Rio de Janeiro’s annual carnaval.


