11.   Tiananmen Square is at the heart of downtown Beijing, bordered by ancient imperial palaces, the national legislature and other landmarks.

12.   Two pulled their trousers down and flashed their buttocks in an ancient palace believed to have belonged to King Minos, while another took photographs.

13.   Wind, sand, water and salt have eaten away at the soft limestone masonry of the ancient palace in the Negev Desert.

14.   Berlusconi welcomed Blair shortly before midday in the garden of an ancient Medici palace just outside Rome.

15.   They were stolen from parks surrounding ancient palaces and manors in Silesia, Poland, as well as from cemeteries.