How has China’s magnificent Forbidden City withstood centuries of earthquakes? The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries ...

Located in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City (shown in aerial view here) was home to the emperors of China for nearly 500 years, during China's final two imperial dynasties, the Ming ...

Many Chinese eunuchs have been selling valuables, which without question came from the Forbidden City. The valuables thus sold were probably passed over the walls of the city to the eunuchs ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture.

BEIJING — It’s highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray ...