It’s rare to see a royal engagement ring featuring an emerald. The striking stone features in very few of these most romantic ...

Here the royal couple's scribes ... The lord holds an enormous "Vision Serpent." Its two heads spit out the same hieroglyph, which gives the name of the throne: "Black-Earth-Flower-Place." ...

Now known as the Serpent Queen, she had three sons who would ... death of Henry II’s older brother to produce an heir for the throne drove her to desperate measures. While this nickname conjures ...