Winged horse Further along were five pairs of stone ... side of the spirit path were 61 stone figures attesting to the Tang Dynasty's power and prosperity as well as its friendly relations with ...

A set of polychrome female musician and dancer figurines from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) Photo: Courtesy of the Henan ...

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 ...