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 ...

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

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 ...

An elaborate antique clock is displayed Feb. 21 on the sprawling compound of the Forbidden City also known as the Palace Museum in Beijing. (Photos by Ng Han Guan/Associated Press) Photo Gallery ...

I n the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City stands as a testament to China's rich imperial past. Now serving as the Palace Museum, it houses over 1.8 million relics, including scroll paintings ...

Explore 500 years of China's imperial history at the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site once home to 24 Ming and Qing emperors.

Elsewhere in the workshop, the delicate work of textile restoration unfolds. Two restorers painstakingly patch holes in a panel of patterned green silk, adorned with the Chinese character for ...

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 ...