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There is ongoing discussion among academics over the nature of the Nimrud lens, a piece of quartz unearthed by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, in the Nimrud palace complex in northern Iraq.
Thereafter, the heads of the three families and the duke retreated to the Ji's palace complex and ascended the Wuzi Terrace.
In Jerusalem, the royal family lived firstly on the Temple Mount, before the foundation of the Knights Templar, and later in the palace complex surrounding the Tower of David ; there was another palace complex in Acre.
In classical Greece the priests at Delphi were called Labryades ()-the men of the double axe .- The complex palace of Knossos in Crete is usually implicated, though the actual dancing-ground, depicted in frescoed patterns at Knossos, has not been found.
Louis was a devout Catholic, and he built the Sainte-Chapelle (" Holy Chapel "), located within the royal palace complex ( now the Paris Hall of Justice ), on the Île de la Cité in the centre of Paris.
According to a new theory, Bishop Jordan, Bishop of Poland | Jordan was buried here, while Mieszko's grave location is probably the Chapel of the Virgin Mary at Ostrów Tumski, Poznań | Ostrów Tumski palace | palatium complex.
The first royal palace was built on the site in the eleventh century, and Westminster was the primary London residence of the Kings of England until a fire destroyed much of the complex in 1512.
The palace complex was substantially remodelled once again, this time by Sir John Soane, between 1824 and 1827.
In the resulting conflagration both Houses of Parliament were destroyed, along with most of the other buildings in the palace complex.
In 2010, plans were announced that may see the palace or at least, some parts of the complex of venues, become available for hire as a wedding venue, banquet hall and so on.
The northern walled city called " Inner Citadel " () was portioned out to the remaining Manchu Eight Banners, each responsibled for guarding a section of the Inner Citadel surrounding the Forbidden City palace complex (; Ma: 40px Dabkūri dorgi hoton ).
, " the red fortress "), is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
The palace complex was designed with the mountainous site in mind and many forms of technology were considered.
The palace complex is designed in the Mudéjar style which is characteristic of western elements reinterpreted into Islamic forms and widely popular during the Reconquista, the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims by the Christian kingdoms.
The original plans, as developed by his court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann before 1711, covered the space of the present complex of palace and garden, and also included as gardens the space down to the Elbe River, upon which the Semper opera house and its square were built in the nineteenth century.
* Construction begins on the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China while the palace complex of the Forbidden City is completed.
When Yuan Shao's troops reached Luoyang, they stormed the palace complex, killing the Ten Attendants and 2, 000 of the eunuchs ' supporters.
The splendor of the imperial palace complex at Ctesiphon, to include Khosrau II's palace ( Shâhigân-ǐ Spêd = the white palace, now almost totally ruined ) and the great arch Taq-i Kisra, remain legendary.
In Susa, Darius built a new palace complex in the north of the city.
He begins a major expansion of the city, strengthening the walls with fortified gates, building a palace complex and the Imperial Baths.

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Following the death of Emperor Ling ( r. 168 – 189 CE ), the palace eunuchs suffered wholesale massacre by military officers, allowing members of the aristocracy and military governors to become warlords and divide the empire.
The ancient electoral palace is another of the buildings that suffered severely in 1760 ; it now contains archives.
In response to largely peaceful mass demonstrations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in August 1991 but suffered an irreparable setback soon thereafter when his troops fired on peaceful demonstrators marching on Iavoloha, the suburban presidential palace, killing more than 30.
They were destroyed by the fire suffered by the palace in 1862, and recovered again in 1882.
It suffered much from the ravages of the Thirty Years ' War, but the episcopal palace, then destroyed, was subsequently rebuilt, and in 1852 was converted by Louis Napoleon into a place of residence for widows of knights of the Legion of Honour.
The prisons and the fortresses are all open to the public, with the exception of the former presidential palace, which suffered severe decay and is still undergoing renovations.
He suffered a serious cerebral hemorrhage while working at the presidential palace on 7 August 1964.
Pavlovsk suffered much from the German occupation during World War II ( 16 September 1941 – 24 January 1944 ) – the entire water system of the park and about 70, 000 trees were destroyed, the palace was severely damaged by the fire of January 1944, and about 40 % of exhibitions were stolen or destroyed ( the rest was evacuated to Siberia before arrival of the Germans ).
In spite of the extensive destruction Haguenau suffered during the many wars experienced by Alsace, especially the Thirty Years War, the French conquest in 1677 and World War II, she still keeps monuments from 9 centuries, even if nothing is left of arguably the most prestigious of them, Frederick I Barbarossa's imperial palace ( Kaiserpfalz ).
After an incident in which Li Shimin suffered a severe case of food poisoning after feasting at Li Jiancheng's palace an event that both Emperor Gaozu and Li Shimin apparently interpreted as an assassination attempt Emperor Gaozu considered sending Li Shimin to guard Luoyang to prevent further conflict, but Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, after consulting each other, believed that this would only give Li Shimin an opportunity to build up his personal power there, and therefore opposed it.
In 1939 the palace suffered minimal damage.
Meanwhile, during a feast in Yang Tong's palace, Wang suffered from a severe case of food poisoning, and he believed that he was poisoned, and thereafter refused to see Yang Tong again.

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But by laying bare in 1884 the upper stratum of remains on the rock of Tiryns, Schliemann made a contribution to our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life which was amplified two years later by Christos Tsountas's discovery of the palace at Mycenae.
Rome's seventh and last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, after witnessing a snake near his palace, sent a delegation including two of his sons to consult the oracle.
Marco Polo also described a large portable palace made of gilded and lacquered cane or bamboo, and supported against the wind by two hundred silk cords, which could be taken apart quickly and moved from place to place.
Although Westminster officially remained a royal palace, it was used by the two Houses of Parliament and by the various royal law courts.
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.
His sister Roeung was a concubine of King Monivong, so through the two women, he often had cause to visit the royal palace.
Breaking with two centuries of Ottoman tradition, a former concubine had thus become the legal wife of the Sultan, much to the astonishment of observers in the palace and the city.
The sons of Ancus hired two of the most ferocious shepherds, who approached the king in the palace and struck his head with an axe.
The palace of Montezuma II also had two houses or zoos, one for birds of prey and another for other birds, reptiles and mammals.
After that, Versailles was never again the seat of the capital of France, but the presence of the French Parliament there in the 1870s left a vast hall built in one aisle of the palace which is still used by the French Parliament when it meets in Congress to amend the French Constitution, as well as when the French president addresses the two chambers of the French Parliament.
A settlement was reached when both were allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to the palace.
* July 11 – Ricimer proclaims Olybrius emperor and dies less than two months later at his palace in malignant fever, vomiting blood.
* Jin China is overrun by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, who plunder the countryside and cities, until only Beijing remains free, despite two bloody palace coups and a lengthy siege.
It seems all facades were to have a giant order of pilasters rising at least two storeys to the full height of the piano nobile, " a gandiloquent feature unprecedented in private palace design ".
One evening, Intaphernes went to the palace to meet Darius, but was stopped by two officers who stated that Darius had retired for the night.
While leaving the palace, he took the bridle from his horse, and tied the two officers together.
A few important commissions came to him ; the French governor of Rome asked him to paint Virgil reading the Aeneid ( 1812 ) for his residence, and to paint two colossal works Romulus's victory over Acron ( 1812 ) and The Dream of Ossian ( 1813 )— for Monte Cavallo, a former Papal residence undergoing renovation to become Napoleon's Roman palace.
The chapel of the archiepiscopal palace consists of two storeys, of which the upper still () serves as a place of worship.
To complete the royal palace begun by Nabopolassar, nothing was spared, neither " cedar-wood, nor bronze, gold, silver, rare and precious stones "; an underground passage and a stone bridge connected the two parts of the city separated by the Euphrates ; the city itself was rendered impregnable by the construction of a triple line of walls.
Work halted in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque.
In 1537, the King's much desired male heir, the future Edward VI, was born at the palace and the child's mother, Jane Seymour, died there two weeks later.
The plan was for a vast palace constructed around two courtyards at right angles to each other.
The palace houses many works of art and furnishings from the Royal Collection, mainly dating from the two principal periods of the palace's construction, the early Tudor ( Renaissance ) and late Stuart to Early Georgian period.
After two fires in Diocletian ’ s palace he took harder measures against Christians: they had either to apostatize or they were sentenced to death.
There was a further attempt to assassinate Diệm and his family in 1962 when two air force officers acting in unison bombed the presidential palace.

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