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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).

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

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).

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...

The Dog & Bear in Lenham, Kent, England. The pub, built in 1602, was visited in 1704 by Anne, Queen of Great Britain (r. 1702-14) and so the queen's coat of arms was placed above the doorway to advertise this royal endorsement.

The St. Margaret’s Chapel and Royal Magdalene Almshouses in Glastonbury, Somerset. A chapel dedicated to St. Margaret was built in the 1070s CE on Magdalene Street, originally as a hospital, but the preserved building dates from 1444 CE.

A Royal Mint steam hammer, a device invented by James Nasmyth (1808-1890) in 1839 during the Industrial Revolution. (The Science Museum, London)

Alabaster work relief of an Assyrian royal attendant, from the northwest palace of Ashurnasirpal II. Reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 883-859 BCE, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia. (The Burrell Collection, Glasgow).

Professor Theodore Antikas with Laura-Wynn Antikas holding the shorter greave from the Royal Tomb of Vergina in front of the display cabinet in the Archaeological Museum of Vergina. Courtesy of the Antikas team archive.

This is the entrance to the excavated ruins of the royal palace at Ugarit.