A 27-meter-long painting from China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) sold at Poly Auction in Beijing on Sunday for 512.9 million yuan ($76 million), becoming the most expensive Chinese artwork sold in ...

The Ming Dynasty, from 1368-1644 ... Paintings on paper and silk, and calligraphy by the four Masters of Ming painting are on display. This remarkable scroll showing a woman playing a flute ...

"The exhibition shows the profound attainments of the famous painting masters of the Ming Dynasty from the mid-14th century to the mid-17th century. The exhibition will be a portrayal of the ...

The 30 girls were favourites of the Ming emperor Yongle. Following his death in the summer of 1424, they had been handed the blood-red square of silk dreaded ... Though the Ming dynasty exerted ...

Chinese archaeologists have found an ancient sunken ship in the South China Sea laden with Ming Dynasty porcelain ... in the area along the "Marine Silk Road" linking imperial China with the ...

researchers say 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 ...