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Album/Pictures from History/Universal Images Group ... court managed its contact with the outside world, using the Forbidden City’s magnificent architecture as a stage to showcase the emperor ...

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A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that produces images, which are then projected onto computer screens.

A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that produces images, which are then projected onto computer screens.

A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing's Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that produces images, which are then projected onto computer screens.

The resulting images, projected onto computer screens, hold clues to the discoloration's origin. "We want to learn what the black material is," explains Kang Baoqiang, one of the Forbidden City's ...