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The Fileni Arch in Italian Libya was designed by architect Florestano Di Fausto in response to a request by the Italian Governor-General Italo Balbo (1896-1940). It was unveiled on 16 March 1937 in a lavish night...

Italo Balbo (1896-1940), Governor-General of Italian Libya, photographed between 1938 and 1940.

Photograph of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy, visiting Sabratha in Libya in 1926 and meeting local notables.

Umar al-Mukhtar (1858-1931), a leader of the resistance to the Italian colonisation of Libya, arrested and transferred to the Palazzo del Littorio in Benghazi to be tried on 15 September 1931.

A map showing the territorial gains of Italy in Libya from 1919 to 1935.

Bronze bust by M. Gerasimov based on a facial reconstruction of the exhumed skull of Timur (1336-1405), also known as Tamerlane. Timur founded the Timurid Empire (1370-1507) which, based in Uzbekistan, spread across Central Asia.

The Gūr-i Mir, the restored tomb of Timur (1336-1405), also known as Tamerlane, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Timur founded the Timurid Empire (1370-1507) which spread across Central Asia.

English dramatist Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), engraving first published on the title page of Two New Plays (1657), which contained his works Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women, republished in The Works of...

A 1910 photograph of the SMS Rheinland battleship of the German Imperial Navy. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914), heir to the Habsburg throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Countess Sophie Chotek, both seated in the rear of the car during...