Lord Elgin’s Greatest Crime: The 1860 Looting of China’s Imperial Garden!

In 1860, British and French troops burned the Old Summer Palace in Beijing and shipped 1.5 million artifacts across Europe. One hundred and sixty-six years later, the Chinese government still does not know where most of them are. This is a forensic walkthrough of where five Qing imperial treasures ended up — the one that escaped to Taipei, the auction-house chain in London and Hong Kong, the British Museum's locked collection, the bronze zodiac heads that triggered an international incident in 2009, and the five animal heads still openly missing. This channel traces the forensic asset trails of fallen dynasties. The treasures, the buyers, the museums, and the missing pieces. Subscribe for the next file. #qingdynasty #oldsummerpalace #chinesehistory #britishmuseum #zodiacheads #fabergeofchina #theseizedcrown