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The Apadana (audience hall) of the Palace of Darius in Susa (Iran) was a large hypostyle room of 36 columns. Measuring 109 metres (357 feet) on each side, it was very similar to that of Persepolis in plan...

A model of the khan's palace at Karakorum, capital of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE) from 1235 to 1263 CE. (National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar)

Catherine II on a balcony of the Winter Palace on the 28th of June, 1762, the day of the coup, watercolour by an unknown artist based on the original painting of Joachim H. Kaestner...

The Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete (c. 1500 BCE).

These are the ruins of the so-called "North Palace" of Nebuchadnezzar II at the ancient city of Babylon. Neo-Babylonian period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 6th century BCE.

Hall of the Great Council, Doge's Palace, Venice. The room is 53 meters long and 25 meters wide (173 x 82 ft) and can seat 2,000 people. On the back wall is one of the largest oil paintings on canvas...

Sarai (Sarah) Is Taken to Pharaoh's Palace by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1896-1902 CE. Jewish Museum, New York

Fasilides Palace in the Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar, Ethiopia. Gondar was made the capital of the Kingdom of Abyssinia (aka Ethiopian Empire) in 1636 CE.

The Promontory Palace of Herod the Great stretching into the sea, Caesarea, Israel.

Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia. Completed in 1849. Photo taken in 2008.