Siyi via Unsplash Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in eastern China, archaeologists have uncovered a rare ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

Liu Tingxun was a loyal servant of the Dynasty, and his tomb figures, both human and animal, sum up many aspects of Tang China at its zenith. They show the close link between the military and the ...

A Chinese study explored how people in the middle and upper classes used cosmetics during the Tang dynasty (618-907). The researchers found that make-up was a fun part of daily life for those who ...

Siyi via Unsplash Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in eastern China, archaeologists have uncovered a rare ceramic found only a few times in history. Archaeologists were working ...