Hundreds of tiles have fallen from the roof of a centuries old tower in China's Anhui province, smashing to the ground near visitors to the site. Eyewitness footage showed sections of the roof ...

With intricate designs, the tomb once belonged to a "feudal lord who was enfeoffed by the Hongwu Emperor ... since the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was very ...

A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from the 16th ... The porcelain jars, made for the Jiajing Emperor, sparked a 20-minute bidding war among more than 10 collectors before eventually ...

A 600-year-old Chinese teapot made for a Ming Dynasty Emperor has sold for £11million. The nine-inch imperial blue and white ewer was made for Yongle Emperor Zhu Di during his reign between 1402 ...

He was born in 1470, the third son of Emperor Chenghua, the eighth of the Ming Dynasty, and his mother, surnamed Ji (known as Lady Ji), who was held in the palace as a prisoner from the Guangxi ...

A 600-YEAR-old Chinese teapot made for a Ming Dynasty emperor is tipped to sell for £8.3million. The 9in tall, blue-and-white jug boasts a clawed dragon design and was made between 1402 and 1424.

BEIJING, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A reprint of a book attributing the end of the Ming dynasty 400 years ago to the ineptitude of a Chinese emperor was pulled from shelves last week, in an apparent purge ...

the burial grounds of 13 Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) emperors, began in 1409 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor and continued until the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), spanning over 230 years.

Hundreds of tiles have fallen from the roof of a centuries old tower in China's Anhui province, smashing to the ground near visitors to the site. Eyewitness footage showed sections of the roof ...