Wu Zetian’s influence across Central Asia helped boost trade, particularly in valuable commodities like silk and tea, which ...

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 ...

Though she changed the Li house's Tang Dynasty into the Wu's Zhou Dynasty, she had trouble choosing a successor and finally ordered in her will a return of the throne to the Li house's offspring.

At an ancient Tang Dynasty site in Hebei Province, south of Beijing, archaeologists discovered a rare ceramic sculpture. Siyi via Unsplash Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in ...

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 ...