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A close-up view of the upper part of the so-called Victory Stele of Esarhaddon depicting the Assyrian king Esarhaddon praying in front of symbols of deities. From the citadel at Sam'al/Zincirli, modern Southern Turkey. Neo-Assyrian Empire...

An encaustic painting depicting the 1st century CE king of Edessa Abgar V holding the Mandylion icon - a cloth considered to have the impression of Jesus Christ's face. (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egypt)

A c. 1875 photograph of Cetshwayo kaMpande, king of the Zulus from 1872 to 1884. His reign came to an end after the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

Collection of poems (divan), King Solomon and the hoopoe who brought news from Queen Sheba, Walters Manuscript W.636, fol. 84a An illustrated copy of the collection of poems (Dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī who flourished...

King Frederick William III of Prussia (r. 1797-1840), oil on canvas portrait by an unknown artist, between 1830-1840. Museum of Prussia, Minden, Germany.

A 16th century CE depiction of the Danish king Sweyn II (r. 1047-1076 CE), Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark.

Tetradrachm coin depicting King Artavasdes II, a member of the Artaxiad dynasty, who ruled the kingdom of Armenia from c. 56- c. 34 BCE.

A detail of a red-figure vase showing the king of Argos, Eurystheus, hiding from Hercules who, after one of his labours, carries the Erymanthian boar. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Pivot stone with inscription of the king Enmetena of Lagash. Circa 2340 BCE. (The Pergamon Museum, Berlin).

King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great by Matt Waters.