9 sentences with 'palace'

Example sentences and phrases with the word palace and other words derived from it.

« Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, traded palace intrigues for scientific research. In 1654 he invented the first sealed thermometer, the predecessor of today's thermometer. »
« An inscription states that '5,400 soldiers ate daily in his palace', and there are graphic records not only of soldiers, but of siege weapons and mining (digging under the walls of enemy fortifications to make them collapse). »
« Sargon himself was born an illegitimate son and was, at one point, a royal gardener who worked his way into the palace, eventually seizing power in a coup d'état. »
« Also, a note on nomenclature: the term 'pharaoh' means 'great house', the term used for the royal palace and its vast supporting bureaucracy. It came to be used to refer to the king himself from the New Kingdom period onwards; it would be like the American president being called "the White House" in everyday language. »
« The Minoans built huge palace complexes that combined governmental, spiritual and commercial centres in vast, sprawling building areas that were interconnected and housed thousands of people. »
« Minoan frescoes have even been found in the ruins of an Egyptian (New Kingdom) palace, indicating that Minoan art was valued outside Crete itself. »
« The Minoans were an important seafaring civilisation based on the island of Crete. They created huge palace complexes, magnificent works of art and great wealth. »
« One strong possibility is that there was a sustained civil war between Mycenaean palace settlements that resulted in a fatal disruption of the economic environment that was essential to their very existence. »
« There, Greek armies sacked the entire palace complex before burning it to the ground; historians have concluded that Alexander the Great ordered the burning to force the remaining Persians who resisted his conquest to recognise its purpose. »

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