As the earthquake strikes and the palace crumbles, Theseus saves Ariadne, and is cheered by the bull-dancers and the native Cretans, who heard his warning and fled the palace in time.

The tutor found them missing and eventually found them on the palace grounds but she was able to convince him that they would return to the palace shortly.

However, before they were to gain entry into the sanctuary, Straboromanos and royal guards caught up with them to summon them back to the palace.

When the site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists during 1941-45, they realized that they had discovered a building absolutely unique for the area: a large ( 1500 square meters ) Chinese-style, likely Han Dynasty era ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) palace.

Modern versions typically retain Camelot's lack of precise location and its status as a symbol of the Arthurian world, though they typically transform the castle itself into romantically lavish visions of a High Middle Ages palace.

A lot of these symbols were found in the Minoan palace and they usually accompanied female goddesses.

Instead, the troops at Gibbethon chose Omri as king, and he led them to Tirzah where they trapped Zimri in the royal palace.

The immortals know no care, yet the lot they spin for man is full of sorrow ; on the floor of Zeus ' palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones.

Most of the Ebla palace tablets, which date from that period, are about economic matters ; they provide a good look into the everyday life of the inhabitants, as well as many important insights into the cultural, economic, and political life in northern Mesopotamia around the middle of the third millennium B. C.

The beasts and fowl of their own accord entered the kitchen of Solomon's palace, so that they might be used as food for him, and extravagant meals for him were prepared daily by each of his 700 wives and 300 concubines, with the thought that perhaps the king would feast that day in her house.

With the aid of several collaborating young men, they kidnap eighteen young men and women ( nine of each sex ), and take them to a palace near Marzabotto.

However, Heads of governments ' residences are usually far less grand than those ( often called palace ) of a Head of state ( even a merely ceremonial one ), unless they combine both roles, as for example:

As they were not particularly strong fortifications, the Popes relied instead on the immensely strong fortifications of their palace, the " Palais des Papes ".

When Yuan Shao's troops reached Luoyang, they stormed the palace complex, killing the Ten Attendants and 2, 000 of the eunuchs ' supporters.

* The Roman army marched east to repel a Parthian invasion of Mesopotamia, they loot the royal palace at Ctesiphon and capture an enormous number of its inhabitants as slaves.

On 22 August 1705, Caroline arrived in Hanover for her wedding to George Augustus ; they were married that evening in the palace chapel at Herrenhausen.

During the night, they infiltrated the palace and attempted to kill the queen, who was associated with a frivolous lifestyle that symbolized much that was despised about the Ancien Régime.

Inside the ruined palace, they discover statuesque figures of Charn's former kings and queens, which degenerate from the fair and wise to the unhappy and cruel.

The palace was defended by 1, 000 men under Sir John Gage at Charing Cross ; they retreated within Whitehall after firing their shot, causing consternation within — thinking the force had changed sides.

After two fires in Diocletian ’ s palace he took harder measures against Christians: they had either to apostatize or they were sentenced to death.

His legitimate grandchildren claimed they were Pepin's true successors and, with the help of Plectrude, tried to maintain the position of mayor of the palace after Pepin's death, however, Charles had gained favor among the Austrasians primarily for his military prowess and ability to keep them well supplied with booty from his conquests.

A mob soon formed and they rushed en masse to the palace.

On his deathbed, Ivan appointed a council consisting of Godunov, Feodor Nikitich Romanov, Vasili Shuiski and others, to guide his son and successor, for Feodor was feeble both in mind and body ; " he took refuge from the dangers of the palace in devotion to religion ; and though his people called him a saint, they recognized that he lacked the iron to govern men.

Dolphins also seem to have been important to the Minoans, judging by artistic evidence from the ruined palace at Knossos.

She stayed in the royal palace only until October of that year, when she was asked to leave due to courtiers ' suspicion of her motives and methods ( courtiers seem to have feared, with some justice, that she intended to Anglicize the princess Maria da Gloria ).

Kerma had many distinctive features: two deffufa-solid mud-brick towers that seem to have been religious buildings ; a large circular building believed to have been a royal audience hall ; palace buildings ; and cemeteries containing the huge circular tombs of Kerma's rulers.

So, at first look it might seem that Urvashi is in palace or the imagination of greatest beauty but we get more of the life by being grasped in the singing Urvashi of Shri Ramdhari Singh Dinkar.

With the palace as the centre to the city, the great temple, and the other temples in the city seem to have been erected.

The Trojan War is supposed by many to have occurred at the height of the Mycenaean civilization ( see discussion of Troy VII ), roughly the point at which this palace appears to have been abandoned.

However, if there was such a palace, it seems to have been supplanted by later building activity on the Acropolis.

Russian archaeologist L. A. Evtyukhova surmised, based on circumstantial evidence, that the palace may have been the residence of Li Ling, a Chinese general who had been defeated by the Xiongnu in 99 BC, and defected to them as a result.

During the last battle of N ' Djamena gunships and tanks have been put to good use, pushing armed militia forces back from the Presidential palace.

This was reflected in Constantinople by the construction of the Blachernae palace, the creation of brilliant new works of art, and general prosperity at this time: an increase in trade, made possible by the growth of the Italian city-states, may have helped the growth of the economy.

The emperor's kami is venerated at the Kashihara Shrine a Shinto shrine located at Kashihara in Nara prefecture, where his palace was said to have been located.

He is said to have ruled from the palace of Shibagaki at Tajihi in Kawachi ( present day Matsubara, Osaka ); and he is said to have died peacefully in his palace.

The location of the palace is thought to have been in present day Osaka prefecture or Nara prefecture.

Elagabalus was married as many as five times, lavished favors on male courtiers popularly thought to have been his lovers, employed a prototype of whoopee cushions at dinner parties, and was reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace.

Although now extensively damaged, these share the same style as the great hall ; this would have unified the appearance of Gaunt's palace in a distinct break from the more eclectic medieval tradition of design.

It may have been found in the ruins of the Emperor Sargon II's palace in Khorsabad.

The ruins of Minos ' palace at Knossos have been found, but the labyrinth has not.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

Other buildings that have been destroyed include the house of Khadijah, the wife of Muhammad, demolished to make way for public lavatories ; the house of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's companion, now the site of the local Hilton hotel ; the house of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of Muhammad, and the Mosque of abu-Qubais, now the location of the King's palace in Mecca ; Muhammad's birthplace, demolished to make way for a library ; and the Abraj Al Bait Towers, built after demolishing the Ottoman-era Ajyad Fortress.