The ancient Chinese legend that Tang dynasty rulers donned gold-plated armor in battle had long been mere myth—until now.

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 ...

In the hills near Brno, Czech Republic, a bent piece of metal turned out to be a remarkable archaeological find. What first looked like debris — a curled sheet among other buried bronze fragments — is ...

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, ...