Xiaoling Tomb, at the foot of Zijin Mountain in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, is a mausoleum of the first emperor of the Ming ...

Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an ...

The tomb of a noble was recently rediscovered in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. With intricate designs, the ...

A large, rare Chinese dragon palace carpet from the Ming dynasty is heading to auction at Christie's London on Thursday (May 1) with a $1.1 to $1.6m estimate. "Of the seven ... we know of in the ...

In the ever-evolving world of fashion, few stories capture the essence of legacy, identity, and self-expression quite like that of Kimora Lee Simmons and her daughter Ming Lee. For this week's World's ...

A cage fighter behind Britain’s biggest armed robbery was the target of a “Hollywood blockbuster” murder plot, a police chief has said. Paul Allen, then 41, was paralysed for life after ...

The court also heard that the three men snatched Ming dynasty antiques worth more than $3.5 million from a Swiss museum shortly before the murder plot. Jurors heard agreed facts about the ...

A month before that, the trio had stolen more than $3.5m (£2.78m) worth of Ming dynasty antiques from the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva, for which the Ahearne brothers had been jailed in ...

A month before the shooting, the Ahearne brothers and Kelly stole Chinese Ming Dynasty artefacts worth more than $3.5 million (£2.78m) burgled from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva.

who helped Zhu Yuanzhang to overthrow the Yuan (1271-1368) government and establish the Ming Dynasty, enjoying a drink with his cousin while appreciating snow from the Fan Pavilion. Outside ...

Ming dynasty officials had their meager wages supplemented with gifts of silver, while Qing elites hid their wealth in land deals. To enable comparison over two millennia, we invented a "rice ...