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This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.
None of this is true. Everyone needs to calm down." The Élysée Palace is the official residence of the President of France and one of the most spectacular buildings in Paris, located in the ...
If you're visiting St. Petersburg in the summer, the Peterhof Palace & Garden is an absolute must-see. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Peterhof was the brainchild and summer palace of Peter the Great.
Their portraits will be hung in the National Gallery until 5 June, before moving to their permanent home in Buckingham Palace's Throne Room. On 6 May two years ago, the monarch and his wife were ...
They sifted carefully through the king’s once-grand throne room — and unearthed an “extraordinary” 26,000-pound carving. A team of archaeologists began working at the ancient palace of ...
Police in Vietnam have detained a man who broke into a history exhibit and damaged an antique throne considered to ... posterity in Hue city’s Thai Hoa Palace. A 42-year-old man “snuck into ...
In what appears to be a bid to tie the room together ... leaf moldings and large mirrors filled Baroque palace walls from Versailles to the Peterhof Palace. But in the early 1700s Rococo, an ...
The slab was made in the seventh century B.C. but was mysteriously broken and buried under the palace throne room several centuries later. "We have no information on the reasons that led to the ...
It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the Catholic Church’s history, forging for the first time the word “conclave.” ...