In addition to the vase, burglars also stole a Ming Dynasty bowl and “doucai style” wine cup rom the Museum of Far Eastern Art. The bowl, valued at £80,000 ($100,000), was sold at a Hong Kong ...

In this photo issued by the Metropolitan Police on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, a view of a Chinese vase which dates back to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. A sting operation at a London hotel ...

A pair of British men accused of stealing three precious pieces of Ming Dynasty porcelain from a Geneva museum are scheduled to appear in London extradition court Tuesday.

CHANGPING, China, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 14, the Ming Dynasty Culture Forum 2025 opened at the Ming Culture International Exchange Center in Changping District, Beijing.

Underwater archaeologists in China have recovered more than 900 artifacts from two merchant vessels that sank to the bottom of the South China Sea during the Ming dynasty. The ships are located ...

A centuries-old folding chair from China sold for a staggering $16 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this past weekend—more than 10 times the chair’s low pre-sale estimate of $1.2 million.

The 400-year-old stone-shelled grenades unearthed near the Badaling Great Wall are similar to these "thunder crash bombs" made from pottery shell, which were found in a Ming dynasty shipwreck.

Sixteen emperors ruled China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644. Of those, 13 are interred in an extensive burial complex near the base of a mountain range on the outskirts of ...