For centuries, China’s Tang-era “golden armor” belonged to the realm of imagery sunlight on metal, a warrior’s sheen until a tomb on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau yielded a suit that could be measured, ...
Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...
For a long time, China’s golden armor was a historical claim without physical evidence. Tang dynasty writers mentioned ...