Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ... The Tang welcomed diverse people to its capital, Changan, the site of modern-day Xian, and multiethnic groups lived side by side in ...

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.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it acknowledged allegiance ... becoming an independent kingdom in the northwest area. Because the capital of Western Xia was in today's Yinchuan (then ...

Ms Angeline Oyang, Community Ambassador for the Art Gallery of NSW, talks about the liberal lifestyle of ladies in the Tang Dynasty. Understand the quirky parts of Aussie life. Get the latest with ...

They were buried in a complex in Xian, which was the capital of the Tang dynasty. The scientists found that many cosmetics from this time were made from animal fat and vegetable oil. Animal fat ...

Because Southern Tang had declined by the time Li Jing died, and he had declared himself a vassal of the Later Zhou Dynasty, his mausoleum was much smaller than for Li Bian. The layout of its ...

He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang dynasty. As a member of the elite in society he lived in the capital at Chang’an ...

Statue of a 'foreign groom,' Tang dynasty (618-907), in the exhibition ... Indeed, work carried out in 2006 to build the Xi'an Metro (Chang'an, capital of the empire in the Tang era), followed ...

Ukrainian artist Annette Golden’s work is inspired by Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor. [Photo by Yang Xiaoyu/chinadaily.com.cn] Ukrainian artist Annette Golden shared that her trip to Luoyang, ...