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Artist's depiction of king Solomon in his palace.

King Frederick the Great and his soldiers on the night after their climactic victory at the Battle of Leuthen (December 1757), oil on canvas by Wilhelm Camphausen, 1864. Sanssouci Palace, Brandenburg...

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

Created in Tours, France, sometime between 1245-1248 CE, this stained glass panel depicts King Louis IX (r. 1226-1270 CE) carrying the crown of thorns. Measures 55 x 35 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...

King Alfred’s Monument at Athelney, Somerset. Built in 1801, it commemorates the time Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) spent in exile in the Somerset marshes during the early months of 878, when he built a fortress at...

Part of the Rollright Stones complex, the King Stone is a solitary weathered monolith dated to 2nd millennium BCE.

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

Statue of Arranshah Juansher (Pahlavi) (King Javanshir of Caucasus Albania), 637-669. A copy of the bronze sculpture of Javanshir at the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan. The original work is kept at the Hermitage...

King Chlothar II slays Bertoald, mayor of the palace of Burgundy, during the Battle of Ėtampes, December 604 CE. Illustration from the manuscript Grand Chronicle of France, 14th century. Bibliothèque nationale...

The enthroned pharaoh has idealized features and wears a striped head-cloth, false beard, and pleated kilt. A bull's tail, symbol of superhuman strength, hangs between the legs. Many Egyptian kings used the title of "bull" or...