Zhen believes the style coincides with the paintings found in the tomb of Wang Shenzi, a key figure in the late 800s during ...

Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in eastern China ... While dragon iconography is far from unique in ...

reflecting Tang Dynasty architecture; others are "Painting of Polo Game" and ''Paintings of Envoy and Guests," depicting cultural exchanges and the friendly relationships between China and the world.

Measuring 13 meters long and 3.6 meters wide, it was painted around the mid-10th century, roughly four decades after the fall ...

Reviving the camphor trees required rebuilding the soil's health, yet Soytong's approach was unconventional. Using village ...

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 ...

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 ...