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Chinese team restores legendary Tang dynasty ‘golden’ armour found in Tibetan tomb (www.scmp.com)

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“We will not leave the desert till we beat the foe, although in war our golden armour be outworn 100 times.” Wang Changling’s famous poem from China’s Tang dynasty depicts soldiers in golden armour battling on the desert frontiers. However, for a long time, no Tang dynasty gold-plated armour was unearthed, leaving its appearance to the imagination. But on January 14, the Key Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences and Cultural Heritage at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) unveiled the...

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