A 15th century Chinese box which went unnoticed for decades has sold for £288,000 (about $358,000), smashing its expected price at auction. The box was bought for just £19 ($24) in 1946 and was ...

Climate change has a profound impact on historical societal transformations. A recent study by Chinese researchers has found that the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, one of the most important dynasties ...

New study upends conventional thinking that has blamed Ming's fall on eunuch dictatorship, factionalism, peasant uprising and rise of Manchus By many historical accounts, the Ming dynasty's doom was ...

At Mount Fanjing in China, two Buddhist temples sit atop twin rock pillars connected by a narrow bridge, all constructed ...

Philippines volcanic eruption may have led to collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty - Eruptions can be ‘stress multipliers’ of any ...

Art experts in Australia have found a rare paper banknote from the Ming Dynasty of Imperial China hidden inside an antique wooden sculpture that was being prepared for auction. The Chinese characters ...

Sixteen emperors ruled China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644. Of those, 13 are interred in an extensive burial complex near the base of a mountain range on the outskirts of ...

The latter stands in Jiangsu’s provincial capital of Nanjing. It’s one of China’s most underrated tourist attractions. Some 22 of the remaining 25 kilometers of the once-inaccessible wall are ...