For many centuries China held the secret to making the ... the standard court mark would read "made during the Xuande era of the great Ming Dynasty." A commercial potter would make a mark that ...

The Galle Trilingual Inscription, a relic of China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... making it a crucial relic of China's ancient Maritime Silk Road with significant historical value.

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

a historian who has written several books on the Ming dynasty, most recently Mr. Selden’s Map of China. “His remarkable powers of observation bring the era to life for us in an ...

The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing.