At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

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The roof of a 650-year-old Fengyang Drum Tower in the city of Chuzhou in East China's Anhui province came crashing to the ground this week. Visuals from the incident showed several eyewitnesses ...

Anhui, China: The roof of a historic Ming Dynasty-era Drum Tower in Fengyang County, Anhui province, partially collapsed on Monday evening, causing hundreds of roof tiles to fall near visitors.

The Drum Tower - reportedly the largest in China - was built in 1375 during the Ming Dynasty but had undergone an extensive rebuild in 1995. Officials for the county, around 200 miles away from ...

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