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.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.

Actually an underground cistern, its roof supported by rows and rows of pillars, it was built by Justinian in the Sixth Century to supply the palace with water.

At times it was applied to various priests, e. g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus (' of the palace ') and Abbas castrensis (' of the camp ') were chaplains to the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns ’ court and army respectively.

In 294 BC, after forty-three years of semi-autonomy under Macedonian suzerainty, Ambracia was given by the son of Cassander to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who made it his capital, and adorned it with palace, temples and theatres.

He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school in Aquae Grani ( Aachen ) under Alcuin.

Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

Although Agrippina was very influential, she kept a very low profile and stayed away from the imperial palace and the court of the emperor.

Agrippina removed or eliminated anyone from the palace or the imperial court who she thought was loyal and dedicated to the memory of the late Messalina.

In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.

Towards 57, Agrippina was expelled from the palace and went to live in a riverside estate in Misenum.

great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.

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.

Alexios arranged for Maria to stay on the palace grounds, and it was thought that Alexios was considering marrying the erstwhile empress.

The wedding was celebrated at Torgau, the palace of the Queen of Poland, on 14 October 1711.

He was the governor of the palace during the reign of Adosinda's husband Silo.

The great palace of the city was given to the monks of Bernard.

During the post-Phoenician era of the eighth century a palace was erected and a port was also constructed, which served the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines.

In 1953 the coffin was moved to Burg Hohenzollern, where it remained until 1991, when it was finally laid to rest on the steps of the altar in the Kaiser Friedrich Mausoleum in the Church of Peace on the palace grounds of Sanssouci.

He laid out new streets and squares and built within it the famous " palace without a rival ", the plan of which has been mostly recovered and has overall dimensions of about.

A small piazza was laid out in front of the senator ’ s palace, intended for communal purposes.

At the banquet back at the palace, the fairies seat themselves with a golden casket containing golden jeweled utensils laid before them.

He also laid out parks and a palace for his son al-Mu ' tazz.

According to Lactantius, " That /> Galerius might urge /> Diocletian to excess of cruelty in persecution, he employed private emissaries to set the palace on fire ; and some part of it having been burnt, the blame was laid on the Christians as public enemies ; and the very appellation of Christian grew odious on account of that fire.

And, notwithstanding these financial difficulties, he laid out money on new buildings in the palace.

The palace, as designed by Nash, was laid out around three sides of the courtyard., with the Marble Arch placed on its open, eastern side.

Soon thereafter, Thir descended with his guns to the Ezbekia and then laid close siege to the governor's palace.

He was one of the early theorists of the new and more formal garden à la française, and he laid out a series of squares along an east-west alley closed at the east end by the Medici Fountain, and a rectangle of parterres with broderies of flowers and hedges in front of the palace.

He remade the Medici Fountain and laid out a long perspective from the palace to the observatory.

The nationalization of the Belvedere palace complex was also laid down in the draft document to reorganize the former imperial collections drawn up by Hans Tietze in 1920 – 21.

In front of the palace a great formal garden was laid out.

Zero leads his dungaree-clad harem to the glass palace of Tristessa and invades and decimates the beautiful, gothic pile, discovering Tristessa herself laid out in a room surrounded by waxwork effigies in coffins.

The gardens were laid out to Le Blond's design, but the master's death prevented him from completing a more elaborate project for the palace.

He founded a settlement and erected a large square palace richly decorated with frescoes, built a dock noted for its complex hydrotechnical engineering, laid out streets, gardens, and orchards, and planted trees and designed areas of recreation for himself and his court.

Also buried in the cathedral is Thomas Percy, another famous bishop of the diocese, who laid out the fine grounds of the palace.

It was a walled city containing religious building, large circular dwelling, a palace, and well laid out roads.

He laid the foundation of the city of Mahmudabad ( Mahmud Aabad ) ( now Junagadh ) in 1479 A. D. Strong embankments were raised along the river, and the city was adorned with a palace, handsome buildings and extensive gardens.

It was called “ Winter ” because it was laid in the palace during wintertime and its vivid patterns brightened the winter interior with the luxuriant colors of the gardens and fields in bloom.

The town was laid waste by the British who razed Nana Sahib's palace and the temples in the town in retaliation for the brutal killing of over 500 British men, women and children who had been lured out of their defences at Cawnpore with a promise of truce during the Siege of Cawnpore.