This is not the first time that a Ming Dynasty artifact has smashed its auction estimate. In July 2020, two rare volumes of an ancient Chinese encyclopedia sold for more than €8 million ($9 ...

The stolen items, two Ming Dynasty vases and a cup, valued at around $3.8 million, were stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva in 2019.

The Drum Tower - reportedly the largest in China - was built in 1375 during the Ming Dynasty but had undergone an extensive rebuild in 1995. Officials for the county, around 200 miles away from ...

Believed lost for decades, an exceptionally rare Chinese Ming Dynasty cloisonné box was a surprise hit at auction, selling at Dreweatts in Berkshire, U.K., for £288,000 ($358,000). It was ...

Nearly 1,000 pieces of treasure — including copper coins and ornate pottery from the Ming Dynasty — have been recovered from a pair of ancient shipwrecks discovered in the South China Sea.

The announcement was made during the 2024 Ming Dynasty Culture Forum. Construction on the Ming Tombs, the burial grounds of 13 Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) emperors, began in 1409 during the reign of ...

CHANGPING, China, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 14, the Ming Dynasty Culture Forum 2025 opened at the Ming Culture International Exchange Center in Changping District, Beijing. The Forum ...