Documents, transcripts, notes and correspondence regarding a "history of the world view", as Humboldt himself names various envelopes, can be found especially in the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="http://kalliope-verbund.info/DE-611-BF-12815">Large Box 8</ref> of the Berlin papers. It contains materials on the natural philosophy of the Egyptians, Greeks and Chinese, on the prehistory of the Phoenicians, on the history of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy as well as on the early history of globalization in the context of the European conquest of the American continent.