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View of the Theatral Area of the Palace of Knossos (Crete) and the Royal Road right below.

An artist's depiction of a royal funerary procession in the Middle Ages. From the game Old World.

A modern re-enactment of a traditional Korean wedding. Such richly embroidered clothes could only be worn by women of the royal or ‘sacred bone’ (seonggol) class in the Korean bone rank system used in the Silla period (57 BCE - 935 CE).

An illustration by Claes Jansz Visscher of the Ark Royal, an English galleon warship which fought in the Anglo-Spanish War during the Elizabethan period. (National Maritime Museum, London)

This object is an ancient Israelite royal fortress gate, made out of limestone. It was excavated from Hazor and dates to the Iron Age II (9th BCE). (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Used with permission. Israel...

An 18th-century painting of the Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs in France.

This marble statue depicts a standing-striding royal man with an Egyptianized style and was found at Hadrian's villa (Tivoli), Italy. Roman period, circa 135 CE.(State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).

The 15th century CE Royal Lodge of the Chateau d'Amboise, Amboise, France.

The remaining part of the royal palace of Old Dongola, Sudan. Built c. 1002 CE, it was converted into a mosque in 1317 CE.

The lion engraved on this duck-shaped weight shows that this is an official palace weight and therefore a royal property. Neo-Assyrian Period, 800-700 BCE. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, Northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (British...