A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...

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

Elsewhere in the workshop, the delicate work of textile restoration unfolds. Two restorers painstakingly patch holes in a ...

Restorer Kang Baoqiang speaks near a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine analyzing a glazed roof tile from the Forbidden City in a lab on the sprawling compound of the imperial palace also ...

The details of an elaborate antique clock is seen in a restoration workshop on the sprawling compound of the Forbidden City also known as the Palace Museum in Beijing, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP ...

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 ...

BEIJING — 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 ...