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Rules for playing the Royal Game of Ur
There are Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions as well as explanatory diagram and rules for playing the so-called the game of 20-squares (the Royal Game of Ur).This is the front aspect of the clay tablet which shows...
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Royal Duck-shaped Weight from Nimrud
The lion engraved on this duck-shaped weight shows that this is an official palace weight and therefore a royal property. Neo-Assyrian Period, 800-700 BCE. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, Northern Mesopotamia...
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Ark Royal Warship
An illustration by Claes Jansz Visscher of the Ark Royal, an English galleon warship which fought in the Anglo-Spanish War during the Elizabethan period. (National Maritime Museum, London)
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The Royal Observatory Greenwich
A print showing the Royal Observatory in Greenwich near London, founded in 1675. Engraving by Francis Place after Robert Thacker c. 1678. (British Library, London)
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Minoan Royal Villa at Knossos
The Royal Villa is located northeast of the Palace of Knossos (Crete). It was built on the east slope of the hill of Knossos and consisted of a ground floor and two other floors which survive in relatively good condition...
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Entrance to the Royal Palace at Ugarit
This is the entrance to the excavated ruins of the royal palace at Ugarit.
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Korean Royal Wedding Re-enactment
A modern re-enactment of a traditional Korean wedding. Such richly embroidered clothes could only be worn by women of the royal or ‘sacred bone’ (seonggol) class in the Korean bone rank system used in the Silla period...
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Elizabethan Royal Navy
A 1907 CE painting showing ships of the English Royal Navy during the Elizabethan period (1558-1603 CE).
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Hattian Royal Tombs at Alacahöyük
The Royal Tombs at Alacahöyük, built in the Early Bronze Age (2500-2000 BCE). Alacahöyük was the centre of the flourishing Hattian culture during the Bronze Age. It was later occupied by the Hittites who used the...
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Alabaster Relief of an Assyrian Royal Attendant
Alabaster work relief of an Assyrian royal attendant, from the northwest palace of Ashurnasirpal II. Reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 883-859 BCE, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia. (The Burrell Collection...