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.

Camels carrying silk cloth also are symbols of China 's friendly economic and cultural exchange with foreign countries during the Tang Dynasty. Three-color glazed camel dating from the Tang ...

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 ...

Now, using genetic testing, researchers have discovered that pet cats likely arrived in China around 600 C.E.—over 1,500 years after ... during the Tang dynasty. It likely sported a short ...

Displayed not far from them is a printed edition of "Ganlu Zishu," a Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907) orthography dictionary. It shows how Chinese calligraphic art has continually developed ...

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 ...