After years of painstaking restoration, a new section of Beijing's Forbidden City will be opened to the public for the first time in 2020. The Qianlong Garden, in the northeast section of the ...

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 ...

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The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to discover America, China’s Ming Dynasty ...

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 ...