A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from the 16th century have sold for £9.6 million ($12.5 million) at auction, smashing their estimate of £1 million ($1.3 million). The porcelain jars ...

A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a New York home has sold for $1.3million at auction. The blue and white moon flask was auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's sale of Chinese ...

A weekend of shopping and sightseeing in Suzhou - the tourist capital of the Ming dynasty! Michael Wood visits Suzhou, "the Venice of China." Five hundred years ago during the Ming dynasty Suzhou ...

Two British brothers have been sentenced to prison for breaking into a Swiss museum and stealing Chinese Ming Dynasty artifacts worth millions. The stolen items, two Ming Dynasty vases and a cup ...

Nearly 1,000 cultural relics have been recovered from shipwrecks dating back to the Ming Dynasty — from 1368-1644 — including porcelain and pottery, copper coins, and deer antlers, China’s ...

a public festival that recreates cultural scenes from China's ancient Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), kicked off recently at the Great Wall's Juyong Pass, which is located in Beijing's Changping district.

A nearly 500-year-old stele of a famous general in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) has been found during a Great Wall repair project in North China's Hebei Province. Erected in 1569, the white marble ...

Hundreds of tiles have fallen from the roof of a centuries old tower in China's Anhui province, smashing to the ground near visitors to the site. Eyewitness footage showed sections of the roof ...

Two of the largest bronze figures created during the early Ming dynasty will soon be offered up by Sotheby's during spring’s Asia Week New York. Depicting guardian deity Panjarnata Mahakala and ...