Police ignored as Chinese treasure hunters dig up 500kg of Qing dynasty coins. Authorities now trying to recover the antique coins, which were uncovered without permission near a river in Jiangxi.

Hundreds of treasure hunters in a Chinese village have ignored police and dug up ancient coins at a site near a river in southeast China. The artefacts, which are thought to be from the Qing Dynasty, ...

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Inside a nondescript Hong Kong warehouse sit seven tons of Qing dynasty coins – proof, their owner says, that it was the imperial monetary system, not the opium trade, that brought China low in ...

The three tombs, which served as a family cemetery, were discovered in the city of Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China, and date from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) ...

A pair of jars purchased as part of a batch of ceramics from a London thrift store for £20 ($25) sold for almost 3,000 times that after they were found to date back to the Qing dynasty. The two ...

The Qing Dynasty in China, after over 250 years, crumbled in 1912. An international research team has pinpointed key reasons behind the collapse, revealing parallels to modern instability and ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing.