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 ...

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 ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture.

"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 ...