The palace complex is aligned north-south ... (Zheng He, sponsored by emperor Yongle, was China's greatest naval explorer.) Within Chinese imperial tradition, the emperor was considered the ...

Inside their vast palace, China’s emperors were unassailable ... Life in the Forbidden City” is heavily based on Qianlong Emperor’s daily rituals – meals included.

Qin Shi Huang may have conquered China with his army—believed to ... Throughout recorded Chinese history, the first emperor’s Epang Palace—located on the Wei River, south of ancient Xianyang ...

These statues were unlike anything ever uncovered before in China. And that raises ... describes a time of deadly palace intrigue: One of the emperor’s many sons conspired with the chief eunuch ...

An array of ancient chariots, including a four-wheeled wooden chariot and a rare "six-sheep" carriage, were discovered near the mausoleum of China's first Emperor ... to tour his palace complex ...

As the Chinese empire is rising again, so too is a new emperor. China ... government’s leadership compound in Beijing, Zhongnanhai, more and more resembles an imperial palace where royal ...

It was Louis XIV who inaugurated the Bourbon kings’ connection to China in 1685 ... with the Palace Museum’s undated Qing-era Portrait of Emperor Kangxi in Court Robes. The French monarchs ...

TAIPEI, May 7 (Reuters) - Taiwan's National Palace Museum, home to one of the world's biggest collections of imperial Chinese treasures, does not plan any joint events with China for its 100th ...