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A 15th century box is up for auction after sitting in a WWII veteran's family home for over 55 years. The box is believed to have been made for an emperor.
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 ...
The book "Chongzhen: The Diligent Emperor of a Fallen Dynasty" was recalled on Oct. 16, due to "printing problems", its publisher, Dook Media Group , opens new tab, said in an online notice.
The Ming dynasty's almost three-hundred-year span witnessed even greater economic and cultural expansion in tandem with a vibrant maritime trade. In the early Ming, blue-and-white porcelain continued ...
A pair of jars found bought for £20 ($25) at a London thrift store sold at for almost 3,000 times that after they were identified as rare 18th-century ceramics.
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 ...
The roof of a Ming Dynasty tower dating back more than 600 years collapsed in a huge pile of rubble in China's Fengyang county on Monday (19 May). Eyewitness footage showed part of the historic ...