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Cochin, located on the southwest coast of India, was a Portuguese colony from 1503 to 1663. Known to the Portuguese as Cochim, it was one of several important cities on India’s Malabar Coast and a great trade centre for spices like pepper...

The royal House of Hanover, formally the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hanover line, ruled Britain for nearly two centuries (1714–1901), shaping the political and constitutional development of the United Kingdom during a period of imperial...

Map of the Persian Royal Road from Susa to Sardes.

Akhenaten and the royal family blessed by Aten, limestone relief from Tell el-Amarna, New Kingdom of Egypt, c. 1350 BCE. Egyptian Museum, Berlin.

Family tree of the Royal Dynasty of Macedon in the 4th Century BCE. From Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great. Grant (2019) p76. Used with permission from Pen & Sword Books.

An Egyptian Royal Woman, probably of the 18th Dynasty, possibly Nefertiti.

A 1913 photograph of the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) with their four daughters (L to R), Olga (born 1895), Maria (born 1899), Anastasia (born 1901), and Tatiana (born...

An elaborate headdress and necklace made of gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian which belonged to a high-level Sumerian woman. These were found in the "Great Death-Pit", one of the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. From Ur, southern Mesopotamia...

The Magna Carta with the royal seal. The Charter was first signed by King John in 1215 CE and then reaffirmed by his son and successor Henry III (r. 1216-1272 CE) in 1225 CE. (MS 46144, British Library, London,

Louis XVI, king of France and Navarre, wearing his grand royal costume in 1779, oil on canvas by Antoine-François Callet, 1789. Palace of Versailles.