The Forbidden City, the biggest wooden structure on Earth and a place of staggering wealth and power, was built under the order of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The city is spread ...

Step inside China’s most iconic historical site: the Forbidden City. Discover the imperial palaces, ancient rituals, and hidden corners of this royal complex that once ruled the Middle Kingdom.

Secluded from view by nine-meter-high walls and composed of 980 buildings, the Forbidden City in Beijing is the largest imperial palace ever built in the world. Three majestic structures form its ...

Beijing, China- China’s most important historic landmark, the Forbidden City, will turn off its lights for WWF’s Earth Hour at 8.30pm on Saturday March 27th in the country’s capital of Beijing.

"When you consider that the Great Wall was built to be intentionally inaccessible, it's amazing," he added. The Forbidden City has numerous stone steps and thresholds, which are distinguishing ...

and from the East Thousand Bu Corridor before the Imperial Palace in the west to the eastern palace walls-fully one half the width of the Forbidden City. The park was originally built in 1420 as a ...

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 ...