Watch Lark E. Mason's appraisal of an early Ming Dynasty ink on silk, in Seattle Hour 2.

A weekend of shopping and sightseeing in Suzhou - the tourist capital of the Ming dynasty! Michael Wood visits Suzhou, "the Venice of China." Five hundred years ago during the Ming dynasty Suzhou ...

Photo courtesy of Christie's auction house in Hong Kong. HONG KONG, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A 15th century silk wall hanging from China's Ming Dynasty sold at auction Wednesday for a record $45 million.

Zhenze ancient town in Suzhou was famous for silk production in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).Provided To China Daily ...

The underwater excavation of the shipwrecks began last year and shows that people from the Ming Dynasty used the South China Sea, known as the ancient Maritime Silk Road, as an important trade ...

Archaeologists in China have unearthed a husband-and-wife tomb dating to the Ming Dynasty that contains extraordinarily well-preserved clothing decorated with elaborate designs. The 500-year-old ...

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 ...

A new exhibition of Chinese Ming dynasty paintings includes just 10 works, one each by 10 artists, but it’s more absorbing than many shows two or three times its size. These 15th and early-16th ...

It is the only known wreck from the late Ming Dynasty. Archaeologists estimate the ship sailed between 1573 and 1620, a period when China had turned inward, banned maritime commerce, and begun to ...

Since 2022, 11 themed exhibitions of Ming Dynasty relics have been held in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Chengdu, enhancing the reach and impact of ...