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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 "strong bull"...

Maurya ruler Ashoka's visit to the Bodhi tree, partial cast of the east gateway of Stupa 1 at Sanchi. Art of India collection in the Ethnological Museum, Berlin.

Chilperic I (r. 561-584) strangles his wife, Queen Galswinth, in her bed. Illustration from the Grandes Chroniques de France, between 1375-1380. National Library of France, Paris.

This video attempts to discover more about King Narmer (the first Egyptian King before the Pharaohs). King Narmer reigned as King during the Predynastic period of Egypt.

A pharaoh was known primarily by his throne name. This was traditionally a statement about his divine father, the sun-god Ra, so all cartouches with throne names display a sun-god at the top. A king's birth name was the only name he had already...

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)

King Arthur, Camelot, Excalibur, Merlin, Lancelot & Guinevere and the Holy Grail. These well-known figures and objects and their adventures, quests and love stories are legendary, but where did the stories come from and who wrote the legend...

Henry VIII is one of the most famous Kings in history, and that has a lot to do with his six wives and his quest for a male heir. King Henry VIII was born on June 28 1491, and was the son of King Henry VII of England. Henry VIII ruled as...

A conversation between King Guntram I of Orléans (r. 561-592) and his nephew and heir King Childebert II of Austrasia (r. 575-596), artwork by Jean Fouquet from the manuscript Grandes Chroniques de France (Français 6465, fol. 45v.), c. 1455...

King Tutankhamun (or King Tut as he is known) spent the early years of his life with the name Tutankhaten and was born in the eleventh year of the reign of his father Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who is better known as Akhenaten. While he was a...