Philippines volcanic eruption may have led to collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty - Eruptions can be ‘stress multipliers’ of any ...

New study upends conventional thinking that has blamed Ming's fall on eunuch dictatorship, factionalism, peasant uprising and rise of Manchus By many historical accounts, the Ming dynasty's doom was ...

Climate change has a profound impact on historical societal transformations. A recent study by Chinese researchers has found that the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, one of the most important dynasties ...

At Mount Fanjing in China, two Buddhist temples sit atop twin rock pillars connected by a narrow bridge, all constructed ...

The demise of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and the rise of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) marked an epochal moment in Chinese and world history. Attention has been given to the North China droughts ...

One of the more famous paintings of the medieval Ming dynasty, which ruled China for about three centuries, is that of a court attendant holding a rope around a giraffe. An inscription on the side ...

Sixteen emperors ruled China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644. Of those, 13 are interred in an extensive burial complex near the base of a mountain range on the outskirts of ...

Temporary dams (left) near the confluence of the Min and Jin Rivers in China’s Sichuan Province have allowed archaeologists to excavate more than 76,000 artifacts. Many of these artifacts belonged to ...