BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a ...

The Palace Museum, former home to the Ming and Qing emperors, is also known as the Forbidden City (Zijincheng). There are four entrance gates: the Meridian Gate (Wumen) to the south, the Gate of ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

Inside the Forbidden City, within a lab-like workshop, restorers are undertaking a meticulous effort to preserve the sprawling palace's historical treasures. A fragment of glazed roof tile ...

When I ask Li Ji, the Palace Museum's executive deputy director, just how many dragons there are in the Forbidden City, he gestures helplessly. "Too many to count," he says. Beyond two other ...

Visitors look at the Liangzhu jades at the Liangzhu Museum in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, on April 23, 2025.

BEIJING (AP) — 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 ...

Ranked among the world’s top five museums, the expansive palace holds over 700,000 artifacts ... the well-guarded gates of Beijing’s Forbidden City, viewable only by the imperial family ...

The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country ... The one in Beijing is in the Forbidden City, who wouldn’t want to go there? The one in Taiwan has most of the ‘cooler’ artefacts ...