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 ...

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On Tuesday, Stephen A. Murphy, curator for Southeast Asia at the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore and curator-in-charge for the Tang Shipwreck Gallery at the ACM, presented at a special ...