PFH1774429: Indonesia / Sumatra: Three Acehnese warriors. Henricus Marinus Neeb, c. 1900. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774433: Vietnam: The French colonial General Post Office, designed by Gustave Eiffel, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Eiffel, Gustave (1832-1923) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774440: Indonesia / Sumatra: Three Dutch officers with a mixed group of Dutch and Indonesian women, Aceh, c. 1910. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774441: Indonesia / Sumatra: Dutch forces use a suspension bridge and elephant transport to cross a river, Aceh, c. 1900. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774445: Indonesia / Sumatra: Renjaan, a Moluccan officer in the Dutch colonial forces, Aceh, c. 1900. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774446: Indonesia / Sumatra: Dutch officers and artilley at Fort Peunajong near Banda Aceh, 1873-74. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774448: Indonesia / Sumatra: Dutch troops and artilley at Banda Aceh, 1874. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774450: Indonesia / Sumatra: A group of Dutch Army medical officers at Banda Aceh, 1874. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774453: Indonesia / Sumatra: Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II (1864 - 1939), thirty-fifth and last sultan of Aceh, c. 1920. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774455: Indonesia / Sumatra: Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II (1864 - 1939), thirty-fifth and last sultan of Aceh, with two senior Dutch military and civil administrators, c. 1920. Aceh War (1873 - 1914) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774456: Indonesia / Sumatra: Dutch officers and troops at the palace of the Sultan of Aceh, Banda Aceh, 1874. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774462: Indonesia / Netherlands: 'Atjeh' (Aceh), Amsterdam, 20 January 1912. Aceh War (1873 -1914) (lithograph), Hahn, Albert (1877-1918) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774471: Burma / Myanmar: Late afternoon light illuminates a Buddhist monk at the Sutaungpyei Pagoda at the summit of Mandalay Hill, Mandalay / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774472: Burma / Myanmar: Late afternoon light illuminates a Buddhist monk at the Sutaungpyei Pagoda at the summit of Mandalay Hill, Mandalay / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774475: Burma / Myanmar: Boats loading and unloading cargo on the Mandalay waterfront and the Irrawaddy River / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774477: France: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), French civil engineer and architect, 1880 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774486: Russia: A group of Russian Orthodox priests, c. 1897, Dmitriev, Maxim Petrovich (1858-1948) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774487: Russia: Russia's first car had rubber tyres on wooden wheels, and had a top speed of 13mph / 21kph. 1897 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774488: Russia: Tramps at Nizhniy Novgorod, 1897, Dmitriev, Maxim Petrovich (1858-1948) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774491: Burma / Myanmar: The massive bulk of the unfinished stupa of Mingun Pahtodawgyi (Mingun Temple), Sagaing District, near Mandalay / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774495: Burma / Myanmar: The massive bulk of the unfinished stupa of Mingun Pahtodawgyi (Mingun Temple), Sagaing District, near Mandalay / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774496: Russia: Sergei Sazonov (1860-1927), Russian Foreign Minister 1910-1916, c. 1910-1914 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774505: Burma / Myanmar: Burmese inscription stone (detail), a page of the Tipitaka Kyauksa (the largest book in the world), Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774524: Burma / Myanmar: Maha Aungmye Bonzan Monastery also known as Me Nu Oak-Kyaung (Brick Monastery), Inwa (Ava), Mandalay Region / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774530: Burma / Myanmar: Looking towards the Ava (foreground) and Yadanabon (background) bridges from the Htilaingshin Paya in the ancient capital of Inwa (Ava), Mandalay Region / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774536: United Kingdom / China: Li Hongzhang (Lu Hung-chang), Marquis Suyi of the Qing Empire (1823-1901), and William Gladstone (1809-1898), Prime Minister of Great Britain, meeting in London at the time of the Black Flags, 1896 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774543: Burma / Myanmar: A monk walks across the U Bein Bridge at sunset, the longest teakwood bridge in the world, Taungthaman Lake, near Amarapura, Mandalay / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774554: Vietnam: The elephant enclosure at Saigon Zoo in 1920 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774557: Vietnam: A mandarin being carried in a palanquin, Hue, 1884 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1774580: Ireland: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Irish writer and poet, c. 1884 / Bridgeman Images

TRK1775129: Spain. Roman funerary monument to Fabia Cellaria. 2nd century AD. From Merida, / Bridgeman Images

TRK1775131: Spain. Roman tragic mask. 1st-2nd century AD. From Barcelona. / Bridgeman Images

TRK1775132: Spain. Roman theatrical mask. 1st century AD. From Empuries. / Bridgeman Images

TRK1775141: Roman Art. Syria. Apamea. Monumental Column and Colonnade. / Bridgeman Images

TRK1775142: Syria. Ruins of Palmyra. Middle East. Colonnade. 3rd century AD. / Bridgeman Images

TRK1775144: Greek pottery. Lekythos. Red figure. From Greece. 4th century BC. / Bridgeman Images