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

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.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

Building projects were commenced immediately after the conquest, which included the repair of the walls, construction of the citadel, and building a new palace.

One of the first building was the Asmara President's Office: this former " Italian government's palace " was built in 1897 by Ferdinando Martini, the first Italian governor of Eritrea.

Ahab allowed worship of a foreign god in the palace, building a temple for Baal, and allowing Jezebel to bring a large entourage of priests and prophets of Baal and Asherah into the country.

The committee was housed at the Monrepos palace in Ludwigsburg, Germany until the building of the headquarters in Lausanne in 1968.

The design, which radically transformed the center of the town, included a palace for the pope, a church, a town hall and a building for the bishops who would accompany the Pope on his trips.

The Arabs whom he employed in these excavations, to their great surprise, came upon the ruins of a building at the mound of Khorsabad, which, on further exploration, turned out to be the royal palace of Sargon II, which was largely explored for sculptures and other precious relics.

After the completion of the temple, Solomon is described as erecting many other buildings of importance in Jerusalem ; for the long period of 13 years he was engaged in the building of a royal palace on Ophel ( a hilly promontory in central Jerusalem ); Solomon also constructed great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for the city, and the Millo ( Septuagint, Acra ) for the defense of the city.

This was no longer the case when work on the present-day Zwinger palace began in the early 18th century, nevertheless the name was transferred to the new building.

Imprisoning the Doge within his palace, the Venetians nobles set fire to the building.

Timber was the chief building material during the Han Dynasty ; it was used to build palace halls, multi-story residential towers and halls and single-story houses.

Another building, for Pope Leo's doctor, the Palazzo di Jacobo da Brescia, was moved in the 1930s but survives ; this was designed to complement a palace on the same street by Bramante, where Raphael himself lived for a time.

He completed the Apadana, the Palace of Darius and the Treasury all started by Darius as well as building his own palace which was twice the size of his father's.

It was previously believed that Cyrus had constructed this building, however due to the cuneiform script being used, the palace is believed to have been constructed by Darius.

The town was for long a mere village, and started its expansion when the Norman Kings of Sicily chose the area as their hunting resort, building here a palace ( probably identifiable with the modern Town Hall ).

He begins a major expansion of the city, strengthening the walls with fortified gates, building a palace complex and the Imperial Baths.

The Japanese removed the Joseon hierarchy, destroyed much of the Gyeongbokgung palace and replaced it with the Government office building.

In building his palace, Wolsey was attempting to create a Renaissance cardinal's palace featuring rectilinear symmetrical planning with grand apartments on a raised piano nobile, all rendered with classical detailing.

Some 20, 000 residents died during the sige and every church, public building, and palace was looted.

The Order acquired the building in the mid-18th century and transformed it into a Rococo palace.

The building just mentioned, a prison in the 19th century, is said to have been the palace of Augustus.

This is true whether the building itself is a magnificent palace or a shack.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

Our building time was slightly over 400 hours -- but the total cost for the hull with Fiberglas bottom, sink, head and hardware was under $800.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

Captain Chandler saw that it was building up strength.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.