The Forbidden City – China’s imperial palace through five centuries and 24 rulers – stands in the middle of Beijing. As this video shows, it’s full of remarkable details – and ...

Inside, paint was cracking ... 40,000 Soviet soldiers that lived in the Forbidden City. This grand staircase leads to the upper floor of the main building of the base. Many of the walls, stripped ...

Borchert is stepping into the heart of the forbidden city in the Wuensdorf neighbourhood ... Some of the vacated rooms inside the three-story officers’ complex recall the glory years of Soviet ...

The sound was barely audible, yet so shockingly real. As the rest of those in Beijing carried on with their business, there I sat in a secret, temperature-controlled room in the Forbidden City, ...

Deep inside ... a lemon-colored building that has housed everyone from the Kaiser Willhelm II, to the Nazis, and the Soviets. The abandoned military complex – known as the Forbidden City ...

Many of the largest building blocks of the Forbidden City came from a quarry about 43 miles away from the site. People in China had been using the spoked wheel since about 1500 B.C., so it was ...

The building dates back ... in the early 1400s, the Forbidden City is considered to be among the most important architectural and cultural monuments inside China. Designed to reflect the majesty ...

The decision followed the Forbidden City’s announcement that it wants to operate all stores inside the former imperial palace, which is now a museum. “[W]e have respectfully decided to end our ...

The poster also includes was the fest describes as “an Easter egg” in the form of a design inside the kaleidoscope ... the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing.