Explore Xi'an, the incredible ancient city and the ‘birthplace of civilisation,' home to the Terracotta Army and countless ...

One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from the South ... and multiethnic groups lived side by side in a city of a million—a population unmatched by a Western city until London in ...

The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of ... Ever since the Tang Dynasty there has been a saying in China that tea is above wine. This saying was embodied in the “1,000 Elders’ Banquet.” ...

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.

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 ...

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 ... or today's city of Turpan, and ...

When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders, I consulted my go-to text, An Anthology of Chinese Literature ... poets used dust to ...

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

Statue of a 'foreign groom,' Tang dynasty (618-907), in the exhibition 'Tang China. A Cosmopolitan Dynasty ... centuries ago in what was the largest city in the medieval world, bigger than ...