Rise and Fall Are but a Dream: The Tang Empire and the Last Persian Prince
Outside the Vermilion Bird Gate of the Qianling Mausoleum in present-day Xi’an, China, stand sixty-one headless stone statues—the famous “Statues of the Sixty-One Foreign Vassals.” On the pedestal of one statue is carved a fragmentary inscription: “Peroz, King of Persia.”
Who was this Peroz? He was a prince of the Sasanian Persian dynasty (the Sasanian Empire)—in fact, the third-to-last prince of that royal house. Why, then, does the name of a Persian prince appear in Chang’an, immortalized in stone?
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