During the Tang Dynasty techniques for building brick pagodas developed to a high level. Architects succeeded in creating both multistoreyed and multi-eaved pagodas modeled after wooden pagodas.

These burial figures date from the Tang dynasty in China. If you died in China and you were an important figure, such as an emperor, you would want all of your retinue to come into your tomb as ...

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.

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 ...

A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

However, almost a thousand years before them, the Christian community thrived in medieval China during the rule of the Tang ...

One example of the impact of these imports on gastronomy is Nang Bing, a type of flat bread popular in the Western regions of China that was introduced to Chang'an by people from Central Asia during ...

capitalize on its weakness to annex Chinese territories. The Khitan and the Formation of the Liao Dynasty Indeed, the Khitan sought to take advantage of the turbulence following the collapse of the ...

The study assessed thousands of tombs in the Tang dynasty’s capital city of Xian and found that Chinese living there not only developed cosmetic recipes but also “optimised” them.