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Rare ceramic dragon head — at least 1,400 years old — found at temple in China. See it
At an ancient Tang Dynasty site in Hebei Province, south of Beijing, archaeologists discovered a rare ceramic sculpture. Siyi via Unsplash Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in ...