“We will not leave the desert till we beat the foe, although in war our golden armour be outworn 100 times.”
In this celebrated poem from China’s Tang dynasty, Wang Changling captured the unyielding spirit of soldiers in golden armour battling on the desert frontiers.
But for centuries, the splendour of the Tang gold-plated armour lived only in poetry and imagination, as none had ever been unearthed.
But that changed last week, when the Key Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences and Cultural...
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