Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

The Mongolia Mountain and Water Map has 211 places marked from Ming Dynasty's frontier Jiayuguan Pass westward to Mecca of Saudi Arabia. Researchers have discovered that a document long thought to ...

For the better part of 2,000 years, China was ruled by imperial dynasties, their names now shorthand for the country's national narrative. Emperors saw themselves in command of tianxia – "all ...

Legend says that China's first dynasty, the Xia, began after the sage King Yu tamed the waters of a massive flood that swept away villages and overran mountains. Now, for the first time ...

In 2015, the Beijing Times reported that about 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles), or 30 per cent, of the Ming Dynasty wall had disappeared due to natural erosion and human damage.