The Drum Tower - reportedly the largest in China - was built in 1375 during the Ming Dynasty but had undergone an extensive rebuild in 1995. Officials for the county, around 200 miles away from ...

Today, visitors can walk the grounds for free or enter three of the tombs for a small fee. DEA / W. BUSS / Contributor. Sixteen emperors ruled China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 ...

The finding shows the astonishing variety of early gunpowder weapons used during the Ming dynasty, which ruled China from 1368 to 1644, according to Tonio Andrade, a professor of history at Emory ...

XI'AN, CHINA—According to a report in The Miami Herald, archaeologists from the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a 400-year-old stone tomb dated to the Ming Dynasty in ...

This is not the first time that a Ming Dynasty artifact has smashed its auction estimate. In July 2020, two rare volumes of an ancient Chinese encyclopedia sold for more than €8 million ($9 ...

Gold coins found in centuries-old shipwrecks off Colombia 00:53. Nearly 1,000 pieces of treasure — including copper coins and ornate pottery from the Ming Dynasty — were recovered from a pair ...

Ming dynasty shipwrecks hide a treasure trove of artifacts in the South China Sea, ... The twin wrecks, which date to the Ming dynasty (1368 to 1644), sit less than a mile (1.5 kilometers) ...

This sweet treat helped China’s Manchu Army conquer the Ming Dynasty. But can it help a Singaporean hawker stand survive changing times?